"I
have been writing and speaking for twenty-five or thirty years, and
have not now one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not
that it has not found intelligent receivers; but because it did not go
forth from any wish in me to bring people to me, but rather to
themselves. I delight in driving them from me. What could I do, if they
came to me? . . . This is my boast: that I have no school followers. I
would account it a measure of the impurity of my insight if it did not
create independence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1858
I love
this quote! I chose this photo because this particular aspen tree is so
unique. How could any other tree be quite like it? And yet - and here is the fascinating thing - aspen trees in any given grove are all interconnected through their common root system! That means that when each of us lives according to our own individual identity, we contribute our unique gifts to the Whole!
Photo: Contorted Aspen tree in a driving snowstorm; Bierstadt Moraine, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; January 10, 2014
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