So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, β What is truth? and of the affections, β What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. β¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.48, Library of America
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