Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Currently, I'm in the part of the entire book that talks about Man Thinking, this is my favorite thing I've read in my life thus far. I can't really get into little stories anymore because I have just about every plot line figured out. In digging for answers to questions that religion doesn't quite explain I decided to take time out of my life to study nature. In studying nature I find that everything is related to another through pulsations of magnetic energy that every living thing gives off. You don't learn this in the ordinary practice of religion. You learn that there's a man and you pray to him because if not you will go to hell. What if the Devil didn't make you do it? What if Jesus didn't save you? What if God wasn't by your side? Who is left? You. And in knowing this you begin to learn the art of nature through certain studies. The study of psychology, for instance, a scientific explanation as to why humans think or act the way they do given their motives and environmental make up, are a set of guidelines I'll be magnifying in on deeper during the Fall. This craft explains people with magnitude instead of declaring if their good or bad because they chose something that might be wrong to one but right to them.

Presently though, Emerson talks about the scholar and what makes a true educated man. The Man Thinking is a genius who never lets opportunity pass him by. He makes note that creativity can only come from pure genius. That in the deepest part of your mind you are the being that you create yourself to be. I love it all because instead of some cliché mystery novel or contemporary fiction I get this deep knowledge of self that enables me to be able to think on my own, giving myself my own set of principles and ways to see how life rotates on its axis. Seeing as though I'll be in school learning all of this I'm very anxious and can't help but to wait. This essay is very long and thorough seeing that it talks about living or just being. You can be the higher more important you or the passive non caring you who only possess responsibilities instead of life.

This essay has taught me a lot of how the influence of nature can make or break your existence or how you can cherish a reality that is more than just yours. You are the small seed within a giant plant and you matter, more importantly.