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Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Simplification as a key to life
Identifier
001844
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Henry D. Thoreau - Walden
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws expanded and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
The source of the experience
Thoreau, Henry DConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
IntelligenceSymbols
CastleScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
TuberculosisSuppressions
Being left handedCommuning with nature
Dont hurt
Reducing desires
Reducing opportunities
Reducing threats
Suppressing memory
Suppressing obligations