by Anthony Boccaccio
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I think watching this short video (1 minute 44 seconds)
is a good introduction to today's quotes.
Emerson is one of my go to wise men.
I would love to go back in time to visit him.
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In this video, Eckhart Tolle reads and comments on passages from a work of rare depth and truth that has been dear to him for many years - the collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Emerson Quote Discussed in the Video:
"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eckhart Tolle on Emerson
YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/3kuZgVCvSNg
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"I believe in the power of us, you are a beautiful soul with much to offer, combining your light with other’s light will begin to alter our realities.
We are more beautiful and powerful than we truly realize, our thoughts, our feelings really do shape our worlds. How we approach the world is how the world approaches us. It is time to begin to open our eyes to the beauty we are, and the power that we have.
If you do only one thing for the world, you can begin to hold these fundamental beliefs in your heart, and apply them to your life. Begin to look at humanity in kind ways, and your life, friends, and family with love. Let us believe, let us hold hope and radiate it out to the vast world. The moments just before the Middle Ages ended, after poverty, darkness, plagues and 100 years war there were growing groups of scholars, scientists, and artists that began to diligently focus on all the beauties of our world, the beauty of a flower, of paint, of thought. Without these individuals and their excited enthusiasm and joyful focus on the beauty of the world we would have never experienced the New Renaissance.
Let us begin again to focus on the beauties of our world, and of each other, so we may begin to change it for the better."
~The Divinity Within
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~Marianne Williamson