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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:19 pm Post subject: won't have to |
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| If you explore the true nature of reality, all pain will eventually come to an end. In some form or other, religious teachings state this truth over and over. There is no way around the fact that it sounds abstract, yet this is the reality of how the soul operates. Your soul deals in abstractions like eternity and infinity so that you won't have to. It converts an inconceivable world into one that we can grasp and understand. Like a car's transmission, which takes the whirling motion of the engine and transforms it into the forward velocity that gets you where you want to go, the soul makes it possible for your life to move forward. |
1. What verb omitted next to 'so that you won't have to.' ?
2. Could you paraphrase the underlined part in the quote?
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:31 pm Post subject: Re: won't have to |
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| If you explore the true nature of reality, all pain will eventually come to an end. In some form or other, religious teachings state this truth over and over. There is no way around the fact that it sounds abstract, yet this is the reality of how the soul operates. Your soul deals in abstractions like eternity and infinity so that you won't have to. It converts an inconceivable world into one that we can grasp and understand. Like a car's transmission, which takes the whirling motion of the engine and transforms it into the forward velocity that gets you where you want to go, the soul makes it possible for your life to move forward. |
1. What verb omitted next to 'so that you won't have to.' ?
2. Could you paraphrase the underlined part in the quote?
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Your soul deals in abstractions like eternity and infinity so that you won't have to deal in abstractions like eternity and infinity. (Your soul does the work.) Sorry, I don't really understand it, but I know the grammar  |
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Chan-Seung Lee
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| Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: meaning |
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I appreciate your paraphrase. When I saw it, I was able to understand that meaning. The meaning seems to be as follows:
Your soul takes care of human eternity and infinity so that your ego will not have to take care of them.
Thanks for everyday's your effort to help students learning English.
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PeterAlex
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Rephrased statement:
Your soul deals in abstractions like eternity and illimitability so that you won't have to. |
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