Re: Daily translation 9/28/2000 - catching up
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 30, 2000, 22:33 |
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>The Gray Wizard wrote:
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>> English: In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance
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>What exactly does this mean?
I think it means something like: When we waste time arguing over small
inconsequential things, we tend to lose sight of the important things.
Or: When we argue over irrelevancies, we tend to lose sight of the
main point.
This is a real good saying, and conculturally speaking, will have to
be appropriated by the "Book of the Teacher", which is full of such
sayings and attached parables.
Padraic.
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