Title: FW: [globalnews] The Self Evolving Circle
THE SELF-EVOLVING CIRCLE
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he
look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all
his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new
idea which commands his own. The life of man is a self-evolving
circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides
outward to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent
to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go,
depends on the force or truth of the individual soul. For, it is the
inert effort of each thought having formed itself into a circular
wave of circumstance, as, for instance, an empire, rules of an art, a
local usage, a religious rite, to heap itself on that ridge, and to
solidify, and hem in the life. But if the soul is quick and strong it
bursts over that boundary on all sides, and expands another orbit on
the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave, with attempt
again to stop and to bind. But the heart refuses to be imprisoned; in
its first and narrowest pulses, it already tends outward with a vast
force, and to immense and innumerable expansions.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
--
"It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an
individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community; a community
practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing
mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the
survival of the Earth."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
