"And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's hot. Do you realize how conditioned we are? As Nietzsche says (see Notes), "They have turned the wolf into a dog and man himself into the man's best domesticated animal."
It truly, in the words of Emerson, "demands something godlike" in us to cast off the "common motives" and trust ourselves as the masters of our fate—to dare to dream the impossible and to trust our highest Selves on this precious hero's journey.
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More Emerson mojo:
"For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure."
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."
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