An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Where do we find ourselves?” On a stair, with steps below that we don’t remember climbing and steps above that go out of sight. Sleep hangs about our eyes all day. What is in danger is less our life than our ability to see it.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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