Exponential Growth Beyond the Horizon
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7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
we unite to get out of being oppressed
motives us to unite
intrinsic motivation
extrinsic motivation
Beyond the Horizon
1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore: 2 And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee. 3 And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great. 4 But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river; 5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
The Broad is the horizon
Your horizons are the limits of what you want to do or of what you are interested or involved in.
A range of vision
Glass ceiling limits your horizon
6 There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things: 7 The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: 8 And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once. 9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
small adjustments over time get you to your horizon
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, But thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, And the ornament of thy molten images of gold: Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; Thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, That thou shalt sow the ground withal; And bread of the increase of the earth, And it shall be fat and plenteous: In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.