“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”
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“Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its property and men. And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried, the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason. That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries, embodies it in his language, as the FATHER.”
― Nature
― Nature
“We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
― Essays and English Traits
― Essays and English Traits
“For the Universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son; but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. These three are equal. Each is that which he is, essentially, so that he cannot be surmounted or analyzed, and each of these three has the power of the others latent in him and his own, patent.”
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
― The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
― The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
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