Powerlifting Made Simple · Edward Alicdan Jr

New Year Special: Circles (Emerson)

·29 min
A New Year Special reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay 'Circles' — a meditation on the infinite expandability of thought, the impermanence of all human achievement, and the soul's perpetual drive to transcend every boundary it has drawn for itself. Emerson argues that every truth, every circle of understanding, can always be circumscribed by a larger one; growth requires abandoning the settled, the old, and the merely virtuous in favor of enthusiastic self-renewal.

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A clear, compact meditation on change, renewal, and the way every ending can lead into another beginning.

Emerson's "Circles" begins with a plain image and keeps opening outward into nature, morality, conversation, history, and the claim that every end is also a beginning.

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Press play for a quick philosophical reset on circles, beginnings, and the pull to draw a new circle.

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