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?
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.
Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
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