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?
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.
"My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside."
Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
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