In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Interpretation
Thought and devotion are interconnected; deep feelings resonate with each other.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the intrinsic relationship between thought and devotion, suggesting that our deepest reflections contribute to our sincere passions. The phrase 'deep calls unto deep' implies that profound ideas and emotions draw us together, resonating with others who share similar depths of understanding or experience.
In practice
In a speech about mindfulness, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, thought is devout, and devotion is thought, reminding us to connect deeply with our reflections.'
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?
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter β the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.