Ralph Waldo Emerson on Reality

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it
happen.

—- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in succession, in
division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole;
the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is
equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and
whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect
in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the
spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece,
as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are
shining parts, is the soul.

— The Over-Soul from Essays: First Series
(1841), Ralph Waldo Emerson