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“in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common”

Posted by on Aug 18, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments
[First in the series Everyday Monasticism]

I’ve been seeing this in various places recently:

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, to think quietly, talk gently, act grandly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common.”

– William Ellery Channing, an early 19th-century Unitarian preacher who inspired the later-19th century transcendentalists

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