...not do so explicitly and come back to our selves on plainer, more focused terms? As Emerson insists: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...for better, for worse, as his portion; that though this wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own...

...for 15 minutes or half an hour. Unite with the One Power. -aJsIn "Self-Reliance," Emerson wrote: " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...must take himself for better for worse as his portion ..." Of course envy is ignorance. If you're coveting somebody else's car, jewels, or promotion, you're...

...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though this wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his own toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to toil. (CW2, 27-28) I regard the kind...