How to Love & Live True to Yourself | Self-Reliance

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 1 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Love & Live True to Yourself. Edited & adapted from Emerson's classic essay on self-reliance. Transcript Excerpt: The power that resides in you is new in nature, and no one but you knows what you can do, nor will you know until you have tried. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you in the society of your contemporaries. Great men and women have always done so, devoting themselves childlike to the genius of their age, with all of their being. Like those who have come before us, we must accept with highest mind our transcendent destiny; and behave not like cowards fleeing before a revolution, but like fearless guides helping others advance through the Chaos and the Dark... Our Sponsors: * Check out Shopify and use my code INSPIRATIONAL for a great deal: www.shopify.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought you in part by Book of Zen,
0:17.5	makers of wearable inspiration for a better world.
0:21.2	Today's podcast is the first episode of what will be an ongoing series, where we share
0:26.4	motivational works that have been adapted from classic books, essays, and speeches,
0:31.8	in order to make them more inspirational and enjoyable to contemporary listeners like you.
0:43.7	Today's reading has been edited and adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay on self-reliance,
0:46.2	first published in 1841.
0:59.0	The power that resides in you is new in nature, and no one but you knows what you can do, nor will you know until you have tried.
1:02.0	Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.
1:08.0	Accept the place that divine providence is found for you in the society of your contemporaries.
1:15.9	Great men and women have always done so, devoting themselves childlike to the genius of
1:21.4	their age, with all of their being.
1:25.1	Like those who have come before us, we must accept with highest mind our transcendent
1:31.7	destiny, and behave not like cowards fleeing before a revolution, but like fearless guides
1:38.6	helping others advance through the chaos and the dark. There are brilliant, formidable, playful, and eloquent voices which we hear in solitude while young.
1:50.8	But they grow faint and inaudible as we grow older and enter into the world.
1:56.7	Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the self-reliance of every one of its members.
2:02.6	Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree to surrender their liberty,
2:09.6	so that the shareholders might enjoy the illusion of greater security.
2:14.6	The virtue that society demands most is conformity. Self-reliance is its enemy.
2:22.3	Society loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
2:28.3	Whoso would be a man or woman must be a non-conformist. Whosoever seeks after the creative life of the Spirit
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