There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Interpretation
Strong individuals can create opportunities for themselves and others in society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects on the nature of leadership and influence within society, suggesting that those who possess strength of character and intellect will find their place among the best thinkers. Furthermore, such individuals not only carve out their own paths but also open doors for others, enriching the collective thinking of their community.
In practice
In a motivational speech about leadership at a corporate event.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.
Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.
He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.
Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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