If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Interpretation
Embracing the good without questioning leads to abundance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that by accepting the good things that come our way, without overanalyzing or questioning their origin, we invite more positivity and abundance into our lives. It highlights a mindset of gratitude and openness, encouraging us to focus on the positive aspects of our experiences.
In practice
A motivational speaker uses this quote to inspire an audience to focus on the positive aspects of life.
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?
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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