We are the prisoners of ideas. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). A Dream T…

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We are the prisoners of ideas. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
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We are the prisoners of ideas. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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