Why shouldn't we have a religion of insight given to us, and not merely a history of those in the past?

  

"The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.  Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?  Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?  Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade with the faded wardrobe of the past?  The sun shines today also."

Ralph Waldo Emerson   

Photo: Alpine Bog Laurel blooming on the shore of Lake Solitude; Grand Teton National Park, WY; July 5, 2013

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