"There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit." - Emerson—Essays. Of Spiritual Laws. Of all …
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A Bower for You
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Keats—"Endymion" Bk. I. L. 1. If beauty is truth and truth is eternal, then beauty, too, is eternal. The outward manifestation of beauty …
Future Loveliness
What is lovely never dies,But passes into other loveliness,Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. T. B. Aldrich—"A Shadow of the Night" Having now lived some four decades and several odd years I can safely say that that which is lovely truly never dies. While the manifestation, the form of beautiful people, places, things and events …
Laughing Song
"Laughing Song" by William Blake When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry …
Expressive Silence
You know There are moments when silence, prolong’d and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken, It is when the heart has an instinct of what In the heart of another is passing. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile. Pt. II. Canto I. St. 20. How often do you quiet yourself in conversation to …
Overcome the World
Es liebt die Welt, das Strahlende zu schwärzen Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn. The world delights to tarnish shining names, And to trample the sublime in the dust. -Schiller, Das Mädchen von Orleans If this is true of the world, then it is true of the men and women who compose it. I …
Worst Enemy
"He must fall either by the hand of his enemies, or by himself; for he is his own worst enemy." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men, 6th ed., comp. by Samuel Arthur Bent. Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887 A troubled heart is a human weapon of mass destruction, for it is from this …
Doing to the Purpose
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity." …
Your Heart
Time, no matter how well spent, will leave furrows in your face, but it need not wrinkle your heart. A light and supple heart is possible no matter what your age, provided that you cultivate a deep and abiding sense of appreciation for the opportunities at hand.
Core of You
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden As much as you value your relationships, romantic or otherwise, you are wise to remember that they …
Gregory Hake 