Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of thoughts and ideas as seeds that grow into meaningful contributions to the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects on the power of thoughts as a driving force behind actions and dreams. He compares thoughts to seeds, suggesting that just as a sower scatters seeds to cultivate a harvest, individuals should nurture and cultivate their ideas to achieve their aspirations, thereby contributing positively to the world and potentially influencing the souls of others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, let us go and speed the stars of thought to their shining goals.'
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?
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
Freedom will not prevail because of historical forces; it will only win, if it does, because of historical actors. In other words, us. Those like me who came of age around 1989 used to take democracy for granted.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says βWe think weβre humans having spiritual experiences, but weβre really spirits having human experiences,β I (a) think itβs true and (b) want to ram the car.
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