Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance…
Updated – Podcasts on Meditation, Personal Development, Stoicism, ACT, Buddhism, and More
[This was originally published in August of 2018. I thought it was time for an update. I’ve added some new podcasts, and kept the original ones on the list, even if they’ve been removed from my current playlist. None of the original podcasts are “bad”, they just don’t fit in with my life at the…
Virtue Signaling : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 010
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from…
Whatever, I Do What I Want : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 009
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to…
Intentions In Private Vs. Actions In Public : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 008
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for…
How To Make It Without Faking It
I’ve always hated the phrase “Fake It Till You Make It.” I like to think of myself as an honest person. Or at least as someone who tries to be. I fail more than I’d like to admit, but I think that on balance I’m more truthful than not. Unless that’s just a lie I’m…
WWDD : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 007
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse;…
Living Like a Brute : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 006
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not….
Waves on the Ocean : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 005
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their…
An Alien Among Us That’s Just Like Me
We all sometimes feel just so damn different from others. Like strangers in a strange land. And we are. All of us are different. All of us are unique. And that’s a good thing – I’m studying this concept in my analysis/attempted discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. But… at the same time, we…