{"query": "The Direction Changes Everything", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_74dba7c005f7", "title": "The Direction Changes Everything", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\" — John 21:6\n\nThe disciples had fished through the entire night and caught nothing. Their arms were tired. Their method was sound. Their"}, {"id": "card_n_ed1b61c25ab7", "title": "Called by Name, Not by Category", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.\n\nThere is a difference between being managed and being known. A shepherd who manages a flock thinks in numbers — how many are fed, how many are "}, {"id": "card_n_92a3bf533367", "title": "The Difference One Direction Makes", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. Then a figure on the shore called out a single, quiet instruction: try the othe"}, {"id": "card_n_19f7aa0778d5", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_16: He used to say: everything is given against a pledge, and a net is spread out...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: everything is given against a pledge, and a net is spread out over all the living; the store is open and the storekeeper allows credit, but the ledger is open and the hand writes, and "}, {"id": "card_n_da61b7cf43cd", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiv: As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he see...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he seeth: so unto him, whom the dogmata have once bitten, or in whom true knowledge hath made an impression, everything almost th"}, {"id": "card_n_242df6858286", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_ix: Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, or stupid sloth: this is thy daily slavery. By little and little, if thou doest not better look to it, those sacred dogmata"}, {"id": "card_n_fd0e95c4fa83", "title": "The Net Is Not the Problem", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not faithless. They were working. 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We may also foresee things future, for they shall all be of the same kind"}, {"id": "card_n_f0bafed54207", "title": "The Initiative Was Never Yours", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.\n\nThere is a quiet relief in these words that we often miss because we read them too quickly. Je"}, {"id": "card_n_1100130413ab", "title": "The Side You Haven't Tried", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.\n\nThe disciples had worked through the night and caught nothing. They were not lazy men — they were experienced fishermen doing exact"}, {"id": "card_n_39ecbfc103e2", "title": "Job", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blameless and upright; loses everything in a hidden contest; counselled wrongly by friends; refuses to curse; is answered out of the whirlwind not with reasons but with God himself; restored doubly.\n\n"}, {"id": "card_n_eae82aebe866", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_014: There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last and lowest creatures; and who shall tell me (unless such a one as through the emptiness of his own heart, wonders and toss"}, {"id": "card_n_fa2ab5998273", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xiv: Of everything that presents itself unto thee, to consider what the true natur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of everything that presents itself unto thee, to consider what the true nature of it is, and to unfold it, as it were, by dividing it into that which is formal: that which is material: the true use or"}, {"id": "card_n_30a3a7f40aff", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_05_06: 'Since, then, as we lately proved, everything that is known is cognized not i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Since, then, as we lately proved, everything that is known is cognized not in accordance with its own nature, but in accordance with the nature of the faculty that comprehends it, let us now contempl"}, {"id": "card_n_3bf9fc4ff957", "title": "Toki Pona — a whole language from 120 words", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sonja Lang's minimalist tongue (2001): 14 phonemes (9 consonants + 5 vowels), a strict\n(C)V(n) syllable shape (~100 raw slots before its bans on ti/wu/wo/ji), and about 120 core\nwords. From that near-"}, {"id": "card_n_753bc2c0ccc7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xv: Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations. Dye it therefore and thoroughly "}, {"id": "card_n_10f4dc63d265", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_27: “My Son, thou must give all for all, and be nothing of thine own.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, thou must give all for all, and be nothing of thine own. Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which tho"}, {"id": "card_n_26a8917f0d9e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xii: What is this, that now my fancy is set upon?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What is this, that now my fancy is set upon? of what things doth it consist? how long can it last? which of all the virtues is the proper virtue for this present use? as whether meekness, fortitude, t"}]}