Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

almost like a classical Greek story -- a rise to a very powerful position, and then the fall.

It's is in those bitter brutal battles strangled by the jaws of despair and defeat, at the long end of hopeless if the champion within can steal a moment of hope and arise....and if he but have the courage to recognize that moment he can ascend and seize greatness....and he will forever more realize and be one with that familiar sound of that eternal calling fully manifested in the one they call you.

They will either applaud your rise or your fall , Which applaud will you gain ?

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.