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The American Scholar by Emerson
I highly recommend spending some time with this
Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Date: 8/29/2008 11:23:45 AM ( 16 y ) ... viewed 1309 times
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9:12 AM
August 29, 08
I haven't looked at this plastic crate for years.
Looks like 99.
It has been sitting here on one of my shelves in my room.
I have thought to clear this shelf for years.
Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech Analysis
kept me in my room, so I took it on.
It has lots of PLANT YOUR DREAM book materials,
single sheets.
I am tossing some things.
My lungs feel impacted with the dust of days outside.
I am not on top of my Game right now.
I turned in a check to go to the Whole Being Weekend yestrday
to Mel. We were at the ONE GAAT meeting.
I took KEEP the BEET.
One man was talking about the need for trangenic something
to ward off pests that come from overseas and get to our citrus.
I was sure I was in the right place, and felt unnerved.
A relationship around the house continues to unnerve me
and crawls into my dream life as a nightmare.
This is from Emerson, found in the crate:
"The first in time and the first in importance
of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every Day,
the sun, and after sunset, night and the stars.
Ever the winds blos, confersing--beholding and beholden.
The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
He msut settle its value in his mind.
What is nature to him?
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the
inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always
circular power returning into itslef.. Therein it resembles his own spirit,
whose beginning, whose ending, he never can findppso entire, so boundless.
IT goes on....
Here is one of my favorite all time lines:
:"So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much
of his own mnd does he not yet possess. And, in fine,
the ancient precept, "KNow thyself," and the
modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
from THE AMERCAN SCHOLAR
by Emerson
"Let us now consider his loving appreciation of Goethe.
Emerson characterized Goethe as representative of writers.
Yet he said with reference to Goethe that
Nature depended on her wonders being put in words.
Every stone, every plant, every creature in nature was waiting to be
uttered in wors by the soul of man. The writer Emerson said,
would be in immediate contact with nature. IT was as though
the creatr himself had first made provision for the idea and then one day the writer
would appear.
from Rudolf Steiner
The Destinies of Individuals
and of Nations
p 218
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