Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Interpretation
Embrace your circumstances and the people in your life as part of a larger plan.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson encourages individuals to accept their current situation and the relationships they have with those around them. It suggests that we should trust in the divine guidance that has placed us where we are and acknowledge the significance of the events and people that shape our lives, viewing them as interconnected elements of our existence.
In practice
During a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, we should accept the place the divine providence has found for us.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
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