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Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.

Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the essay entitled Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841.

The Eye is the first circle.

The horizon which it forms is the second, and throughout nature this primary picture is repeated without end.

St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle, whose center

was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn,

that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning.

That there is always another dawn rising after nightfall, and under every deep, a lower deep

opens. There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Our earthly globe is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.

Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it a train of cities and institutions.

Let us rise into another idea, however, and they will disappear.

Greek sculptures have melted away as if they had been statues of ice, here and there

but a solitary figure or fragment remains, for the genius that created it creates now something

else.

Consider the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless now by hydraulics, arrows by gunpowder,

canals and rivers by roads and railways, sails by steam, steam by electricity, and so it goes. Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.

A richest state appears to children a firm and lasting fact.

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