Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Interpretation
Sunday represents a day of rest and reflection, central to our values and beliefs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson implies that Sunday is not just a day off from labor, but a vital part of societal structure where individuals engage in contemplation and respect for deeper ideas and values. It suggests that this day serves as a cornerstone for personal and communal growth through thoughtfulness and spirituality.
In practice
During a community meeting, I shared Emerson's quote to underline the importance of taking time for reflection in our busy lives.
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?
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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