My only problem with the American Transcendentalists is leaving behind
this world.
Mr. D. H. Lawrence puts it into the mouth of his Jesus, who survives the
Cross and rethinks his mission, and repents a bit, and in the end
thinks: "From what, and to what, could this infinite whirl be saved?"
Mr. Pirsig doesn't seem to worry too much about saving. He just wants us
to do well. You can kind of tell these things.
MRB
On 11/30/2013 2:37 AM, MarshaV wrote:
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect
"Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best
deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance
shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed, or walk abroad in the morning after
meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night. Our thinking is a pious
reception. Our truth of thought is therefore vitiated as much by too violent
direction given by our will, as by too great negligence. We do not determine what we
will think. We only open our senses, clear away, as we can, all obstruction from the
fact, and suffer the intellect to see. We have little control over our thoughts. We
are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so
fully engage us, that we take no thought for the morrow, gaze like children, without
an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us
where we have been, what we have seen, and repeat, as truly as we can, what we have
beheld
.
As far as we can recall these ecstasies, we carry away in the ineffaceable memory
the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called Truth. But the
moment we cease to report, and attempt to correct and contrive, it is not
truth."
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI
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