Back in November of 2018, I wrote about my personal experience with positive affirmations – Don’t Affirm – ACT. (TLDR – affirmations bad, action good) Over the past few days (well, it’s actually been weeks now since I started the first draft of this article), I’ve been thinking about something – I do use affirmations,…
My God Is Bigger Than Your Box : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 025
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter…
Justification for Self-Reliance : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 024
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust. Who is the Trustee? What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded? What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star, without parallax, without…
Greatness : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 023
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the…
Your Action Matters : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 022
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic. In history, our imagination plays us false. Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day’s work; but the things of life are the same to both;…
Maybe You’re Just Crazy : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 021
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in…
Breaking it Down
I posted the following reply to a question in the Happiness Trap Online Interest Group on how to make a big move towards your values, when you can’t break it down into smaller goals: “Thanks for asking this xxxxxx. I’m no expert in ACT, and not a therapist, just a guy for whom ACT has…
Get Out Of My Sun : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 020
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great…
Consistency Not Necessary : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 019
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little…
What You Are vs. What You Do : Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson : 018
Continuing our discussion of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how you gauge and…