Emerson+Connection

I think that Emerson challenges us to look at our world with the new eyes of our time. He asks, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" He challenges us to re-imagine art, literature, and even religion as ours - just because it has always been one way, does not mean that we can't have it "our way." See the world around us. Nature. People. Niagara. Ants. From the most majestic to the nano-bytes of our digital world. It's all amazing. The world is not over, "The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works..."