If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Interpretation
Living authentically allows us to perceive reality clearly.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that authenticity in our lives leads to clear and true perceptions of the world around us. When we embrace our true selves and live genuinely, we are better equipped to see things as they really are, free from the distortions created by pretense or societal expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and authenticity.
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 humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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