Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Interpretation
Sunday represents a day of rest and reflection, central to our values and beliefs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson implies that Sunday is not just a day off from labor, but a vital part of societal structure where individuals engage in contemplation and respect for deeper ideas and values. It suggests that this day serves as a cornerstone for personal and communal growth through thoughtfulness and spirituality.
In practice
During a community meeting, I shared Emerson's quote to underline the importance of taking time for reflection in our busy lives.
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?
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
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