October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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June 18Firsthand Experience
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? / Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? / Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? / Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of / all poems, / You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions / of suns left,) / You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through / the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, / You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, / You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass (1855)
Success is gained through firsthand experiences and through self-examination in the midst of those experiences rather than following someone else's doctrine of their experience. Few ideas are more prevalent in the body of transcendentalist literature.
Whitman urges us not to take things at second or third hand but to “possess the origin of all poems” and the “good of the earth and sun” by experiencing them and considering them for ourselves.
Does this mean you must immediately go purchase The Giant Book of Poems and consume all 662 pages? No, probably not.
It may suggest you try something new today. Something you think you know about, but have never tried. Maybe it's yoga; maybe it's reading a poem.
Here's why this is important. To pursue self-reliance, you need to be good at not being good at things. ...
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