Emersonian Circles

In nature, every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit....No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, CW 2:189.

The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, CW 2:190.