“All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
Long before the New Age movement that heralded the need to find "the child within," there was Emerson, who taught us to question our cultural influences and trust our inner most instincts, the aboriginal wisdom we had at our birth.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist, philosopher and poet, best remembered for leading the transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century.
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