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?
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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