“Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.”
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If you are tempted to make a sacrifice, ask yourself if the sacrifice is greater than the sacrificed.
Much that demands sacrifices is unworthy of sacrifice, and consumes value at a net loss to the whole.
Here are patterns again. When things work very well–or are very worthwhile–they are rarely a sacrifice in the end OR in the process. Usually in the very process of good work there is beauty, or friendship, or insights, or something. I find that the real sacrifices feel very much like being eaten by a lion.
I could use food as an example here, of course.