A Thousand-Li Journey Begins Underfoot

answered by Laozi, Dao De Jing 64

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Rudy (1993)

dir. David Anspaugh · USA

One far short in talent, build, and circumstance clings to a big dream others mock. Is that persistence a vain stubbornness blind to reality, or the power to arrive at last by stacking one step underfoot?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

For one far short in talent and circumstance, is stepping toward a great dream a vain stubbornness?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

千里之行始於足下

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

A journey of a thousand li begins beneath one's feet.

💡 TL;DR

Laozi said a thousand-li journey begins beneath one's feet.

📝The Classic Answers

Laozi said a thousand-li journey begins beneath one's feet. However great the dream, it is never realized whole from the start but issues only from the single step taken now. For one who looks short in talent and circumstance, the one asset left is the steadiness of taking that step again today. The world calls that step a vain stubbornness, yet as steps underfoot accumulate, they reach the thousand li no one thought passable. Rather than being overwhelmed by the size of the goal, I choose to look first at the size of one step I can take today.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If a goal looks too big to face today, forget the goal and set just the one step you can take now.

📖 Classic Source: Laozi, Dao De Jing 64. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.