Emerson gets me: quote of the day

"It [providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child, and filled him with a desire of the whole; a desire raging, infinite; a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets; a cry of famine, as of devils for souls.  Then for the satisfaction, - to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day, a copy as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it. ....

In every house...this chasm is found - between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience"

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings p376