The Perennial Miracle
“More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions.
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“So come I to live in thoughts, and act with energies, which are immortal. Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that ‘its beauty is immense,’ man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders;
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“he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred; that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of time.
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“He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity.
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“He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life, and be content with all places and with any service he can render.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson; Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p. 64
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On this day, may we render our services to our planet.
Davide Abbati
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