Emerson also asserted that nature is in a constant state of flux, and that we must live in synchronization with its process, trusting our own intuition and flowing with the changing self. In order to do this, we must not hold ourselves to ideas, beliefs, or traditions of the past, including our own. Rather, Emerson suggested that our state is subject to change, and consequently, that we might feel or think one way today, but the opposite way tomorrow. Instead of fighting this, however, Emerson argued that we must lean into it. “No man,” he wrote, “can antedate his experience or guess what
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