We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

By the same fire--vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light--we see each other and know each other, and what spirit each is of.

We are all discerners of spirits.

Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Over-Soul”