High on Waves
A little consideration of what takes place around us every
day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events:
that our painful labours are very unnecessary and altogether fruitless;
that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous actions are we strong, and
by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. Belief and love
will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers! God exists. There
is a soul at the centre of nature and over the will of every man, so that
none of us can wrong the universe. It has so infused its strong enchantment
into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice; and when we struggle
to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides, or they beat
our own breasts. The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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