Individual Gleam of Light
25 August, 2008 | No comments | Category: I.dentity, thinking...
“A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thoughts, because, it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own reject thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
not boasting to be more special than others, but unique in my individual specialness. believing i have a gleam just as special as the next person…
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