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?
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth
The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to recognize and honor the Great Holarchy of Being first elucidated by the perennial philosophy and the great wisdom traditions in general... The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.
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