domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2012

Self-Reliance 7

Always be yourself and stay true to yourself. The important thing is the consistency about being ourselves. As long as one is being genuine to one self, one can have one opinion today and change it to another the next day. This is what Emerson means when he talks about honor, to be your true self. By doing genuine things, having honor, helps us live life day by day.

“We worship to-day because it is not of today.” We worship someone today because of all of his past actions. But, does Emerson tell us to judge by our past actions or by our present actions? We shouldn’t take the result of the actions; we should take the actions as being consistent with one self.

“Every true man is a cause, a country, an age; requires in finite spaces and number and time to fully accomplish his design.” 

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