

Self Reliance
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Austin Vanfleet
Unabridged: 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Right Way Publishing
Published: 06/22/2024
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Austin Vanfleet
Unabridged: 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Right Way Publishing
Published: 06/22/2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he began his career as a Unitarian minister, he gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism instead. Seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, he disseminated his thoughts through published essays and public lectures across the United States.
Book Review This review was written during a college course years ago; it's funny how basic and immature my thoughts were... LOL Aaaah! That’s all that I can say to Emerson. Last time when I read “The American Scholar,” by mistake, I thought the world of Emerson. Now that I read “The Poe......more
Shreyaan swadharmo vigunah paradharmaat swanushthitaat; Swadharme nidhanam shreyah paradharmo bhayaavahah. The Bhagavad-Gita, 3.35 (Chapter 3, Verse 35) [Better is one's own Dharma, though devoid of merit, than the Dharma of another well discharged. Better is even death in one's own Dharma; to attempt......more
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of thoughts published by the author in the year 1841. It is indeed a very rare manuscript as it urges its readers to do the unthinkable – trust your gut feeling, your intuition, your common sense, your heart, your spirit and soul – rather than fol......more
Very quotable. I've found myself slumping hard over this one. In this essay, Emerson emphasizes the importance of solitude, the place where the only voice we can hear is ours. This is self-reliance—listening to that voice. "These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint an......more
This was fascinating to read for English class and I enjoyed having a more philosophical view to read from......more