Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Mindfulness

• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Mindfulness, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

• Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Knowledge, Knowing

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wish, Mindfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.319, Library of America

• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

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