by Emerson, Ralph Waldo | All Recommendations
Emerson’s Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson “A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.” Our first recommendation, Emerson’s Essays, is especially meaningful to us at Gleam of Light. It was Emerson’s ideas...
by Thoreau, Henry David | All Recommendations
Walden Henry David Thoreau “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry Thoreau likely never...
by Alcott, A. Bronson | All Recommendations
How Like An Angel Came I Down Conversations with Children on the Gospels A. Bronson AlcottIntroduced and Edited by Alice O. Howell “To be good parents and teachers we must as well be curators of souls.” Student: “Mr. Alcott, did Plato live before Jesus?” Alcott: “Yes;...
by Geldard, Richard G. | All Recommendations
The Essential Transcendentalists Edited and Introduced by Richard G. Geldard “As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists . . . What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.” Few...
by Bosco, Ronald A. & Myerson, Joel & Ikeda, Daisaku | All Recommendations
Creating Waldens An East-West Conversation on the American Renaissance Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson, Daisaku Ikeda “Our task in this life is not to replicate either their lives or their respective worlds but to build a better world for ourselves and our fellow human...
by Taylor, Thomas | All Recommendations
Plato: Five Dialogues (Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, Timaeus and Critias) Translated by Thomas Taylor “If we are designed to know any thing purely, we must be liberated from the body and behold things with the soul itself.” We were first attracted to Thomas Taylor...
