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Embracing Self-Reliance: Unleashing Your True Potential

In the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s "Self-Reliance," this exercise invites you to delve deeply into your personal journey of self-dependence and authenticity. Choose one of Emerson’s thought-provoking passages and expand upon it, allowing your voice to flourish. Reflect on how the ideals of self-reliance resonate in your life—what strengthens or obstructs your confidence in being true to yourself? Can the life Emerson envisions become a reality in today’s world? Explore these themes and cultivate a narrative that celebrates the integrity of your own mind.

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Embracing Self-Reliance: Unleashing Your True Potential

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  1. Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

  2. Wri(gh)te Now: • Select one of the following passages; for each, continue writing as if the original statement is your own. Write down whatever thoughts and statements would follow this “topic sentence.” Don’t refer back to the original essay. • “We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.” • “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” • “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company…” • “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” • “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” • “We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.”

  3. Well…how about it?? • How self-reliant are you? What has helped or hindered your self-reliance?

  4. Yeah, but… • Is the kind of life Emerson describes possible? Why or why not?

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