Welcome to the Oversoul Journal
you must be what you are
Maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson wasn’t always right, no philosopher always is, and in this case, no transcendentalist. But the courage to be wrong, if and when he was, that’s something to admire in this great man.
It’s not that we take everyone of Emerson’s words as gospel, it is that we sit with each one, and through them confront what we know and what we believe, for by knowing where he goes wrong, we hope we also will get to know where we do. Then we will not be wrong in a way that’s self-delusional, or selfish, but sincerely and courageously. Along this road we hope to be joined by those such as we, those who don’t want to please us by what they think, nor hurt us by it, but who only mean to declare the truth as they know it, and as they learn it.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today