Emerson

There Is Great Power to Be Found in Doing the Thing You Don't Want to Do

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 04.03.2012

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Dennis Merritt Jones

What "duty" might you perform today that would make you, as Mark Twain says, agreeable with yourself?

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A Complete Life: Miss Fuller by April Bernard

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.27.2012

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Ilana Teitelbaum

In Miss Fuller, April Bernard takes a speculative scalpel to the life of Margaret Fuller, offering a narrative of her experiences that shines a harsh and unbecoming light on the male transcendentalists.

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You Know Far More Than You Know You Know!

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 05.13.2012

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Dennis Merritt Jones

When you read (or hear) something that finds deep resonance with your soul it's not because you are receiving anything new; you are remembering something that you already know at some level.

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Blaze Your Own Trail!

Irene Tanner | Posted 02.25.2012

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Irene Tanner

Picture this: I am 16 years old attending my first English 101 class at Women's College, University of North Carolina. Our professor is Elizabeth Bowe...

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The Millennial Generation

Richard Geldard | Posted 11.27.2011

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Richard Geldard

It is clear that this dynamic generation of young Americans will change America, and they'll do it in dramatic fashion. Those if us set in our ways will have to step aside, hold on and adjust.

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The Surprising Task of Getting Your Child Ready for College

Tom Morris | Posted 08.23.2011

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Tom Morris

As a parent, you have a job this summer that's more important, and perhaps more complex, than you've yet come to appreciate. The main problem is that you don't know what you don't know.

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Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now

Hugh Rawson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hugh Rawson

The text of Huckleberry Finn includes more than two hundred instances of the controversial word. But this doesn't say very much about the author himself.

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Music and Joy

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tom Morris

What lifts you up during difficult times? Is there something in your life that can reliably center you? And even more, do you have anything readily av...

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Nell Painter's History of White People: It's Coming to an End

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Lydon

Now that we are all supposed to have absorbed the genomics of it -- that "race" is a social concept, not a scientific one; a construction, not a fact -- she is asking: who invented "whiteness" as a human category?

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Calling Back Your Spirit: Taking the 21 Day Challenge to Stop the Bullying

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Cara Barker

We need to learn, model, and teach whatever practice restores the Spirit of who we are, nipping self-criticism in the bud. We need to call back our own Greater Self, on a daily basis.

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eRead Free Classics Courtesy Of Google

The New York Times | Mick Sussman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I recently read Emerson cover to cover, so to speak, on my iPhone's Kindle app -- a lesson both in Transcendentalism and the advantages of digitized l...

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Why Do We Hate Good-Byes?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011

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Robert Fuller

Our distaste for good-byes is a reminder of our unfathomable mutual dependence. An individual self cannot come into being, let alone endure, absent the recognition of others.

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