Getting Over the Guru Fix: Learning to Live a Leaderless Existence
Some excerpts from an interesting article:
Article by Shelby Robinson
Some excerpts from an interesting article:
Personal Independence
“My
life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a
spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be
genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
believed that forging your own path is the only way to be true to
yourself and lead a happy life. He believed that if you make yourself
into a clone of what society wants from you, not only does your life
become “glittering and unsteady” but you also lose the ability to
contribute anything to society. Society benefits from originality and
innovation because people with those characteristics contribute new ideas and solutions to the world’s problems......
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