"I must be myself. I can not break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritial attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions: I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and have dwelt in lies, to live in truth... if we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last."
" When good is near you, when you have life in yourself- it is not by any known or appointed way; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name- the way, the thought, the good shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude all other being... We are then in vision... The soul is raised over passion. It seeth identity and eternal causation. It is percieving that Truth and Right are. Hence it becomes a tranquility out of the knowing that all things go well. Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always all circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death."
"God is here within."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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