...demands others might make. This journal entry would later become a famous moment in "Self-Reliance." The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules & whines. I hate father & mother & wife & brother when my muse calls me & I say to these relatives...

...crowd, the call to duty and accountability. Again, as Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us in SelfReliance, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." And your genius w/7/ call you. It's been calling you your whole life, in fact. Haven't you heard it?...

...(or social) realm obstructs the light of truth, which divinely resides within the self; he claims, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (14o). 14 And he asks "Why drag about this corpse of your memory?" (141). Third, in addition to relinquishing...

...principle, Jesus' equal, writing, "They call it Christianity, I call it Consciousness," as well as "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (JMN7, 28; CW2, 30). (The former marks him and every sentient being an incarnation, whereas the latter...

...our being. Because it requires a self-conscious striving, one through which we might, for example, "shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me," it thereby falls within reach of reflection's flickering taper (CW2, 30). So it marks us as a bit more...