Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
Interpretation
Heaven and divine moments often disguise themselves in everyday life, making it easy for people to overlook their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the extraordinary, often referred to as divine or heavenly experiences, exist in our ordinary lives, hidden in plain sight. This highlights the idea that we frequently miss the significance of our daily experiences, as they are often cloaked in mundane appearances, leading even the wisest among us to be unaware of the wonders that surround us.
In practice
In a speech about mindfulness, one could say, 'Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises.'
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?
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
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