"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Nokhu Crags at sunset, with a lone Englemann Spruce in the foreground; Never Summer Range, CO; December 27, 2013.
Emerson here seems to be linking moral goodness with a psychological wholeness; that is, being One within oneself. Wholeness includes freeing ourselves from the duality that comes from self-incriminating thoughts and an obsession with being in a different state than the one we are already in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Nokhu Crags at sunset, with a lone Englemann Spruce in the foreground; Never Summer Range, CO; December 27, 2013.
Emerson here seems to be linking moral goodness with a psychological wholeness; that is, being One within oneself. Wholeness includes freeing ourselves from the duality that comes from self-incriminating thoughts and an obsession with being in a different state than the one we are already in.
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