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?
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if thereΒ΄s a saucer of milk in it for them.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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