Personal Library -- Bible Stories

Author: (American) Robert Payne, Li Shengyu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The ancients said, "Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books." For modern people, traveling ten thousand miles is easy, but reading ten thousand books is difficult. The wheels of technology are sweeping across the world at an astonishing speed. Modern people, busy in front of computers and all kinds of machines all day, have turned the Earth into a village with wires, optical cables, tracks, or air routes. With a click of the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in the world. However, when facing foreign civilizations, lacking the depth of reading ten thousand books, we not only frequently encounter the awkwardness of "meeting face to face but not recognizing each other," but we also continuously accumulate the strangeness that comes from the depths of our hearts. For this, we long for a deeper understanding, for a connection of the soul; we long for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in our spiritual backpack to allow our steps and souls to go further. A spiritual journey does not require "writing essays in youth and exhausting oneself in studies in old age," nor does it require hanging the head on the beam, breaking through the wall to steal light, or having fragrant sleeves and never putting down a book. A spiritual journey only requires reading a few classics in the leisure of life. Novels, essays, and poetry can all be a balm for the soul; buses, subways, and even the palms of our hands can be our desks. Therefore, we have tailored a "pocket library" for busy urban dwellers. Classics are the soul of the library; easy to absorb is the essence of the library; reading anytime, anywhere, and in any way is the purpose of the library. The selected works in the library are all timeless classics that have been refined after exposing themselves to the harsh realities of foreign civilizations; the illustrations, carefully selected and painstakingly collected from hundreds of rare books and private collections, are a true restoration of the essence of the classics. The small format design makes it as clever as a wallet; the special printing process makes every book "filled with the fragrance of osmanthus." Classics are not afraid of time, but life cannot withstand the erosion of "time flies." The charm of classics is better seen than heard. It is better to use them to mend the gaps in our time and add value to the fragments of our days; it is better to use on-the-go reading to gather wisdom piece by piece and to understand life in the spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least travel expenses, to reach the farthest distance of life.