Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 15
th, 2022 at 4:45pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 14
th, 2022 at 9:09am:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, like too many of his era (May 1803 - April 1882) dished up prolix, overtossed word salad posing as academic theology.
“The sovereignty of this nature wherof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand. The soul circuscribeth all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it abolishes time and space. The infuence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to that degree, that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real, and insurmountable; and to speak of levity of these limits is, in the world, a sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul A man is capable of abolishing them both. the spirit sports with time" -
“Can crowd eternity into an hour,
Or stretch an hour into eternity"
Emerson . 'The Over Soul’
Well, the words quoted by sprintcyclist are very easy reading, well-crafted, and a wonderful antidote to excessive procrastination over past mistakes.
As for the passage you quoted, it is indeed "prolix" and not so easily understood.
But I suspect your negativity has something to do with your delusional '
sovereign/rational individual' ideology (as to be expected by a follower of Rand).
So let's look at Emerson's first sentence, in the paragraph you quoted:
"
The sovereignty of this nature wherof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand".Hmm....the soul is independent of the individual's failings, a proposition which is a direct contradiction of Ayn Rand's 'rational individual' thesis, (indeed she rejects the concept of 'soul').
I can see why you impulsively rejected Emerson's paragraph as a "
prolix, overtossed word salad posing as academic theology"......
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