“The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
“Ne kadar yalnız, dostsuz ve desteksiz olursam olayım, kendime o kadar çok saygı duyacağım.”
Lagom not only demands that we respect ourselves, but others as well, by living according to the golden rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. Give them the space they need and don’t waste their precious time or resources either.
Ricci’s first task was to settle in Macao to learn the Chinese language and customs—and to wait for the Rock to crack. In 1583 he secured permission to settle in Chaoch’ing, the provincial capital. With their traditional respect for the scholar, the Chinese responded to a man who dressed in the garb of a mandarin, spoke their language, and was able to open to them new fields of learning. Ricci made a map of the world for them and introduced them to the new science of the calendar.