Gold Dust 티끌 모아 태산
It's @mineopoly with week 3 from The Groovy School
inviting you to join a virtual adventure of community, curation and enlightenment. I get paid to go to school. I'm a teacher and I think everybody should get paid to go to school. That's why I opened Groovy School. Every day we learn something new and everybody who participates gets paid.
Monday's lesson is: Wisdom
The best place to look for wisdom is Proverbs. We will look at ancient Chinese and Korean proverbs for Wisdom class.
Today's wisdom comes from an Ancient Asian proverb:
티끌 모아 태산
Teekel Moa Daesan
"Dust Gathers to Great Mountain"
Collecting specks of dust makes a great mountain.
Similar to the Chinese proverb:
적소성대
Chuuck-Soe-Sung-Dae
積小成大
It means that what we gather
day by day piles up to a great mountain. It means to keep working on little things until they pile up into great things. This has a good meaning that the little things we do everyday whether it is a nice comment or a favor or challenge and hard work piles up to a great mountain. No one becomes a writer over night. Plankton doesn't become a minnow overnight. Steem is very similar to the process of gathering dust only SP is much more valuable than dust. For three months I have been Sheldon J. Plankton from Sponge Bob but sometime in March I will be an official Minnow. It doesn't come with a sudden surge of energy and power but it comes from gathering dust day by day until that dust becomes a great mountain.
This is not just life on Steemit but also in spiritual things. Spiritual dust is really like gold dust. Just by hanging around we are gathering dust. But it is too easy to give up hanging around when we don't see any incredible change or experience any good feelings. That's because spiritual dust is even smaller and takes time to pile up. Today we read a good book and it just seems to go in one ear and out the other but that word actually sits there and gathers up roots. It is better than dust because it is is living. As new treasures are stored up the old do not disappear but have a deeper meaning. After some time we look back and see that this dust has really become a mountain of gold.
I expect the same thing happen in my physical life as I have restored daily exercise. I don't see much immediate effect but I am building up the golden dust of muscle fiber and strengthening my heart and bones. I'm really thankful to @coachjj for her help in my daily routine. I lose an hour but it was a great hour I spent exercising with my youngest son today. We are both gathering some gold dust. Today I gathered 30 minutes of running time. 60 push-ups and 15 minutes of great yoga. It is a tiny thing for you fitness people but a breath of fresh air for me. That's my wisdom for the week.
Dust Gathered makes a Great mountain.
painting @samuel-earp-art
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| Wisdom | Creativity | ELS |
| Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching | Life | Song |
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That proverb was a little too pithy for me to understand. :) But your explanation makes total sense, and I find more and more how true it is.
It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: Festina lente, which is Latin for "Make haste slowly".
It is certainly true when it comes to writing. Writing 2-3 pages every day adds up quickly; whereas waiting to be inspired to write 20 pages in a day will likely leave you with an empty notebook.
Thanks for the wise words!
I apologize if this old proverb was too pithy. I probably got something lost in the translation. Thank you @jpgaltmiller for sharing awesome wisdom with me. Some want to be writers, but if we take our blog posts for a month we may have a story. SP is like a gas tank for me and keeps these posts moving.
I never studied Latin, just medical terminology and Spanish but I love Spanish and so many sayings from Latin.
"Festina Lente" makes no sense at first but is totally true. There be some rockets that shoot up and then fizzle out and others will be like @thesteemengine that keeps chugging along slow and steady.
@mineopoly,
Hats off t o you. Great concept and honorable endeavor.
I love to learn!
Namaste,
JaiChai
Thank you my friend @jaichai. Namaste. Great to hear from your. Learning can be an interactive experience on Steemit. Have fun.
well written post!
Thank you @jakesdewet. I hope you enjoyed it and learned something today.
a great and motivating post
Thank you @tattoodjay. It's great to see you stop by here. You will be rewarded for learning and I hope this will brighten your day.
Indeed it did
It was a pleasure to visit
Any long road consists of many small steps...
Thank you for daily motivation!
Wonderful quote for today @mineology. So true all the gold dust we slowly put together each day will eventually build to a magnificent mountain. Keep mining the ❤️ , my friend.
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Gathering dust indeed! =) ... I just wish the dust I gave you was worth more, because this is such a great post. You give more quality content in a week than many people on here do in a month.
The dust I gathered today.... Well, actually, I had to give a little clump of dust away today, lol. My mouse was giving in after 4 years of good use, so I bought myself a fancy new one.
You are awesome @mandelsage. I'm sorry I missed this reply a week ago. Congratulations on the new mouse. I like your blog and know you are the one and only original @mandelsage.