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?
If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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