Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
Interpretation
Heaven and divine moments often disguise themselves in everyday life, making it easy for people to overlook their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the extraordinary, often referred to as divine or heavenly experiences, exist in our ordinary lives, hidden in plain sight. This highlights the idea that we frequently miss the significance of our daily experiences, as they are often cloaked in mundane appearances, leading even the wisest among us to be unaware of the wonders that surround us.
In practice
In a speech about mindfulness, one could say, 'Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises.'
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?
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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