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Preview: ENCHIRIDION, The Handbook
ENCHIRIDION
The Handbook
After the translation of Martin Luther´s acclaimed treatise "On the Freedom of a Christian," Biblion finally reveals its second in-house publication: Enchiridion, or "The Handbook," a daily reading designed to inspire you. This work consists of three different reading plans, each spanning thirty days, all made specifically to address the reader's current needs. Each day contains a quote from a renowned author, as well as a short reflection to meditate upon. Enchiridion includes the accumulated wisdom of numerous great writers, philosophers, world leaders and church figures, ranging from Plato and Augustine to Dostoevsky and Thoreau.
The next five pages are a rough preview of our Motivation plan, conceived to help you become more active and achieve your goals in life in a day-by-day basis.
DAY 1
• SEIZING OPPORTUNITY •
‒ Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity is a wonderful little thing.
It’s something that we can readily see when others have it, but we can hardly notice it when we’re the ones confronted with it. Even when we do notice the opportunity, we often pass it up, convinced that either it was not relevant or it was more trouble than it was worth.
But opportunity is also a rare thing, and the more opportunities we pass up, the less we can make use of. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. No one knows when our chance to do something special will be our last.
This is why Disraeli exalts opportunity so highly in Tancred. Opportunity can change lives. When seized, opportunity can lift up a person to the highest places. Opportunities can be such rare and powerful things that they should never be wasted.
In the same way, we cannot squander opportunities to further ourselves towards our goals. We must seize these occasions, making the most out of them at all times. More, we need to be open and receptive about these moments, or else we won’t see them pass by - and opportunities that pass by us never come back again.
