Feeling Alignment
The gift of the life force
On reading a famous passage quoted in an article by The Transcendentalist:
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
I gave this comment:
“The Emerson quote is one of my favorites — oh to be back in the 1840s in Concord taking a seat at the local lyceum on a summer evening and see Emerson walk to the podium and then be immersed for the next two hours listening to him speak of Nature or Self-Reliance or The Oversoul and more.”
I have thought of this idea so often since, reflecting. As if it had really happened.
As if after that lecture I had joined Emerson and his wife Lidian and their friends back in their home, so often a place where poets and philosophers met, with the…
