The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved... Essays, First Series - Page 294by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
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...insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempertinal memory and to do something without knowing how or...The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the... | |
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...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
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...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle." His is not a simple erasure or denial of the past but a commitment to change and movement. Every new... | |
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...ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety ... to do something without knowing how or why . . . Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm....The way of life is wonderful, it is by abandonment. . . . Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this... | |
| Bob Basso - 2004 - 207 pages
...perhaps with a new understanding of nothingness, I can end all that in a land of no expectation. Perhaps. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not wither he is going." I am on a mountaintop. THE HEALING ROOM St. Mary's Medical Center on the corner... | |
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...purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice. It is the conversion of our harvest into seed. i; Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm....The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment. 14 Skeptic. Pure intellect is the pure devil when you have got off all the masks of Mephistopheles.... | |
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...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget outselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful, it is by abandonment ' Thoreau pursues the same idea in "Walking," when he accounts for his apparent "instinct" for stepping... | |
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...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something -without...knowing how or -why; in short, to draw a new circle. (EL, 414) As Poirier says, for these writers, "you are free only when you are getting out of •whatever... | |
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