Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Emerson
“Remember that the goal of self-realization is awareness, that is to say, to ‘wake up.’ Awareness is being in the present moment and embracing Reality ‘as it is’–not resisting ‘what is.’ If we don’t like what is happening we are suffering and we must accept our suffering–the acceptance of ‘what is’–in order to awaken to the nature of Truth, the nature of Reality.”[i]
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”[ii]
Self-reliance is key to embracing Reality and Truth! Refer to the supplemental reading on the next page for more about Self-reliance.
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Supplemental Reading: Self-Reliance, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
#39 Embracing Reality
[i] Henry, Roy Charles. Why Am I Here? October 2014, p. 159.
[ii] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson. New York: Viking, 1946, p. 139.
