Genesis 26:18 · World English Bible
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Digging new ground when proven ground is available buys a person the feeling of being first and costs them years. Water arrives fastest through a hole somebody already proved, and what keeps most people from clearing it out is the belief that a borrowed result is not theirs.
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Digging new ground when proven ground is available buys a person the feeling of being first and costs them years.
Water arrives fastest through a hole somebody already proved, and what keeps most people from clearing it out is the belief that a borrowed result is not theirs. That belief sets a state of proving, proving drives a person onto unmarked ground, and the digging compounds into dry years defended as independence.
Leaving his father's names on water he reopened forfeits the credit, which is exactly what this method costs. A man who pays it has decided he is continuing a line rather than founding one, and that decision closes the exit into novelty. What looks like a new problem is often a working solution filled in with dirt, and a person who insists on unmarked ground digs through seasons of thirst to reach what was already there.
Self-Help lens
Where am I digging new ground mostly so the water can be mine?
He called himself a transmitter rather than an inventor, loving the old ways and passing them on. He thought the ancient paths were worth walking before anyone tried to cut a new one.
The Tao teaches that giving up the need to shine is what lets a person actually be seen. Reaching for credit is the surest way to lose the thing credit was for.
The tradition begins by naming who received the teaching from whom, generation by generation. Carrying a line forward was never treated as a lesser calling than starting one.
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