Emerson on How to Trust Yourself
"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Barbara Jacoby The post What lies behind us and what appeared...
"Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies."
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in...
What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable. William James knew this when he listed ineffability as the first of...
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be g...
"Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream o...
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us,” James Baldwin wrote. “Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leade...
"There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others."
"The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as great a mystery as before."
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies...
"A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams."
No one will map for you the path by which you must cross the wilderness of your own life — not your parents or your teachers, not your heroes or your lovers, not the self-help book...
"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life."
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
Before we speak, before we act, before we allow the momentum of a frantic world to shape the contours of our spirit, we must learn to…Continue reading on @SpiritualAscension »
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often...
But at my back I always hear/ Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. ...
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