happy birthday

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

- By Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was born on this date in 1803.

Emerson was a poet, essayist, philosopher and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 1800s. His writings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 19th century. His essay “Nature” was published anonymously in 1836. In it he “defines nature as an all-encompassing divine entity inherently known to us in our unfettered innocence.”