Saturday, February 2, 2008

Self Reliance

Ne te quaesiveris extra."

"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."

Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

transcendental in every way,

Enigma said...

Yep.

Mel said...

Ouch.........

Introspect allert.

Good or ill....
Man. *sigh*

L.P. said...

GASP! You spoke latin!
I may pounce after all...

oh, and..."do not seek outside yourself" - truth sistah.

Enigma said...

Mel, I ve given up being an introvert...or taking things so seriously anymore, coming out of "A dark night of the soul" tends to make brighter.

LP I speak Maltese and Croation ,too,
but I,m not that easy to catch, you,ll have to be really good at fox wrangling to do it, haha

me said...

I can't pretend that shivers don't go around when I try to question these things. Shivers keep my mind alive.

Enigma said...

Me too Narnie.