Sublime

A theologian, essayist, orator, and poet, Emerson is variously described as America’s own philosopher, our first literary giant, the father of the environmental movement, and the founder of what literary critic Harold Bloom calls “the American religion,” a distinctive blend of individualism and self-reliance. Emerson’s philosophy,

On the verge of dying and still weighed down, still turbulent, still convinced external things can harm you, still rude to other people, still not acknowledging the truth: that wisdom is justice.

There comes a time in our growth of consciousness when we have no more preferences, only acceptance.

I’ve come to believe that living this way taps us into the flow of life. Rather than fight or struggle, we go with the natural evolution of things. Perhaps that’s why not only our inside shifts, our outside does as well.

“Turn it inside out and see what it is like—what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.” —MARCUS AURELIUS,

Melvin Maxwell, Bill Hybels, John Wooden, Oswald Sanders, Jesus Christ,