Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essential Spiritual Writings

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)

"The soul’s communication of truth is the highest event in nature … and this communication is an influx of the Divine Mind into our mind …. Every moment when the individual feels invaded by it is memorable.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.”

A Loveliness

A swarm of ladybugs is called a loveliness. A loveliness of ladybugs. What if we replaced the idea of loneliness with loveliness? What if we were so in love with the purity of our own soul that we were never alone? What if we loved our aloneness? A loveliness of aloneness. What if sometimes we just laughed right out loud, all alone by ourselves, for no reason the mind can figure out. What if we laughed with the pure loveliness of being here now?

Death

Have you wondered what happens when you die to this earth? Some people think they go to heaven. Some people think they go to hell. Then angels say: All you take with you when you leave this body is you—yourself—your own state of being. This is your inner state. This goes with you.

FEAR NOT!

You do not exist.

Your flesh is no evidence 

of your existence

past or future

You only think you are real.

What you think is only what you think.

What you think is a thought.

A passing thought, passing through time,

without constant thoughts you do not exist

your name is just a name 

your body is just a body

it all passes away with time

what you are is beyond time

timeless, beginningless, without end

You cannot die because you were never born

a body was born and given a name

given an identity that you believed in

a believe is a strong thought

you are not a thought

you are eternity in a body

a great treasure lies within you

when all thoughts come to an end

then what remains is what you are

a treasure without end

your greatest friend

the only true friend

the body dies

Spirit does not

So never fear

your true nature 

IS 

ETERNAL

Love, Indira 

Soul Lessons

 We are here to remember our divine essence. You are here to remember your divine essence; to learn, to see, to feel, to love, and nurture your soul. Angels sing this word remember to you like a lullaby. Remember. Remember who you are. Remember your soul. Remember.

-from Lesson 101: Soul Lessons

The Buddha declared in one of his last teachings: 
Atma dîpo -- "Be your own light."

Some beauty for your soul

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." -Vincent van Gogh

FEEDING MY SOUL

Last night my soul woke me
In the middle of a dream
It was hungry
So I took it for a walk
Into the deep dark forest
I filled it with the silence
That cradles the trees
and the tiny violets
with their heart-shaped leaves
And holds the stars in space
And keeps my heart in place
And my soul was happy