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How does Mindfulness connect to the bigger picture? Ralph Waldo Emerson understood these relationships deeply. This collection shows you how they integrated Mindfulness into their broader philosophy, with each quote fully sourced. Use it to build coherent mental models rather than collecting isolated ideas. When you need Ralph Waldo Emerson's systematic thinking on Mindfulness, start here.
"The simple sense of life is enough for any one's happiness."
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"Life is a festival only to the wise."
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
"The first wealth is health."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."
"Each moment has its own beauty; a picture which was never seen before and shall never be seen again."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve from generation to generation the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!"
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
"He is rich who owns the day."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can."
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitos and silly people."
"Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow."
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
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