Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Working this morning. Almost wrote something but didn’t want to commit the time needed to make it satisfying enough to share. As difficult as painting sometimes is, writing is a much harder task for me.
So, we’ll leave this morning with a triad of image, word, and song devoted to self-reliance. Love those last sentences in the passage above from Emerson’s Self-Reliance:
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Words to live by.
Here’s this week’s Sunday Morning Music. It’s Eddie Vedder with his song, Society, from the Into the Wild soundtrack. This is a live performance with New Zealand musician Liam Finn accompanying Vedder.
Listen and leave, please. As Garbo famously said, I vant to be alone…
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