It is my wish that this blog allows me freedom to trust myself and to trust that what Emerson has called the “spontaneous impression,” is accepted within myself and trusted enough to share. It is my wish this vocalization will connect with others and allow them to trust their spontaneous impression as well. It is my intention that this site become a haven for me to trust my self-reliance, for as my master Emerson again has so eloquently stated:
“A [wo]man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across [her] his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet [s]he dismisses without notice [her]his thought, because it is [hers]his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”
May my work and may my voice be infused with this gleam of light, and may others recognize theirs as well. Thank you, and welcome to The Empowered Swan.
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