Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: prayer
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPatience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: work vocation career
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: ralph-waldo-emmerson
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
Ralph Waldo EmersonManners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
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