What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
Interpretation
We gain understanding and insight through the experiences and knowledge of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the idea that our personal growth and knowledge are significantly shaped by the influences of those around us. This reflects the interconnectedness of human experience, where learning from others not only enhances our understanding but also becomes an integral part of our identity, shaping how we reflect on and interact with the world.
In practice
In a motivational talk about personal development.
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?
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. _x000D_ A king does not need to go shopping in his own _x000D_ kingdom. Nor does he beg. _x000D_ Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. _x000D_ All that arises are appearances in consciousness. _x000D_ Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. _x000D_ This is the secret.
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.
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