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The Importance of Spiritual Vitality
Frederick Nietzsche was an admire of Emerson. He realized he lacked physical vitality, so he admired it. But I think he also was trying to come up with this idea of spiritual vitality as well. The Hildegard of Bingen talks about viriditas, that green force that flows through us and that animates the universe. It's also the force of Eros. And that's what we're talking about. So there's physical vitality. Do you have a strong body or a weak body and what's your physiology? And then there's this spiritual vitality that we all partake of. That can be extremely strong. And it was in Emerson. His spiritual vitality never wavered