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• I fight with love and I laugh with rage

  
  Vertigo — Authority: 125
  I got three more brand new books. For my birthday my mother gave me a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card, but when I initially made my order, since the credit card was on the website record, when I clicked proceed, the charged went immediately to my credit card. (not my fault!) So, I ended up doing two orders of books ...
  3 days ago

• The Self-Immolation of a Monk: Non-Violent Resistance.

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 431
  This iconic photo shocked, horrified and yet inspired the world. The Self-Immolation of a Monk: the Ultimate Expression of Non-Violent Resistance. A New Musical Contemplation. Via the artist: Fire Someone yells fire They scream of a fire Closed Eyes Calm mind The peaceful resistance We know Brings more ...
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• Thoreaus Journal

  
  Evenings in Paradelle — Authority: 122
  Most people know Henry David Thoreau for his book Walden . That story about two years he spent living by Walden Pond in the Concord woods is many a persons quiet armchair adventure. Seems like quite an ideal little respite from the world. Thoreau also kept journals. He started at 20 and continued for 24 years, until ...
  4 days ago

• We may ask ourselves, almost with dismay, whether such works exist at all - Robert Louis Stevenson on Thoreau

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 417
  I have been reading ahead in preparation for the forthcoming Wuthering Expectations Scottish Literature Challenge*, in particular for a planned assault on the books of Robert Louis Stevenson.  Stevensons first published book, An Inland Voyage (1878) is a clever little travelogue of Stevensons canoe trip in ...
  5 days ago

• I was determined to know beans – and maples, and apples, and squirrels

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 417
  Robert D. Richardson is describing Thoreau’s Apollonian spirituality: Where the Christian yearns to be redeemed, and the Dionysian to be possessed, the Apollonian yearns to know, to see clearly, to perceive. ( Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind , 194) Thoreau is in some ways hard for me to approach, but here ...
  6 days ago

• Too much wisdom literature.

  
  Pragmatik — Authority: 126
  A few years ago, my friend sent me a copy of Baltasar Gracián ’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom . It is, by the way, excellent reading. It calls to mind Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations , and I mean that in a very good way.  I was reading it a bit last night, and of course, I was struck by just how damned ...
  1 week ago

• The crank within - the crank after all - Henry David Thoreau and the usefulness of cranks

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 417
  Yesterday I called Henry David Thoreau a crackpot, which is unfair.  Hes not a crackpot.  Hes a crank. But there is a certain divine energy in every man, but sparingly employed as yet, which may be called the crank within, - the crank after all, - the prime mover in all machinery, - quite indispensable to all ...
  1 week ago

• live the life youve imagined

  
  Vertigo — Authority: 125
  We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can void it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. So ...
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• I have never yet met a man who was quite awake - in which I try to awaken, and confess to the existence of my PhD

  
  Wuthering Expectations — Authority: 417
  Last summer (right here , actually), I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house - No, not exactly. But I did leave a fine job for something riskier. No more "free" trips to Tokyo for me.  Henry David Thoreau knew what I was experiencing: Why is it ...
  1 week ago

• Midlife anxieties laid bare in insightful "Men" (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," Henry David Thoreau wrote.
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• In 1854, Henry David Thoreau said that most people “lead lives of quiet desperation”. Today that is no longer true. Thanks to blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and reality television, our desperation just keeps getting louder.

  
  kayfabe — Authority: 576
  In 1854, Henry David Thoreau said that most people “lead lives of quiet desperation”. Today that is no longer true. Thanks to blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and reality television, our desperation just keeps getting louder.
  1 week ago

• New Books Just in Time for the Holidays

  
  North Atlantic Books Blog — Authority: 115
  The holidays are fast approaching and it is time to start thinking about gift giving (and receiving). With every topic covered from the Mayan calendar to metaphysics, Buddhism to health and healing, North Atlantic Books has the perfect book to match your loved ones’ interests, and some you’ll want to add to your ...
  1 week ago

• A Way Toward Conscious Evolution

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 135
  My ultimate dream woman (sorry Arundhati Roy, but you’re second) wrote that piece in the link a while back, and it reminded me of a section of Thoreau’s classic:It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat. I am satisfied that it is not. Is it not [...]
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• Whos On First? Whitman. [Team Thoreau]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 809
  Novel-T has launched a line of baseball shirts with the names of famous authors . Their co-creator says, "The shirts are selling very well. Not Going Rogue well, but more like a popular literary novel translated from the French well." [ Mediabistro ]
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• Comics Grinder: Thoreau at Walden

  
  Blog@Newsarama — Authority: 645
  One gentle book that you may have missed, but should not, is John Porcellino’s Thoreau at Walden , a beautiful hardcover published by Hyperion. It’s a wonderful introduction to Thoreau for any reader. Thankfully, John Porcellino, in connection with The Center For Cartoon Studies , leads the way. This certainly ...
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• Seize and Squeeze

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 523
  Seize the day and squeeze it for all the juice its worth. Repeat tomorrow. And no day without a little Emerson: . . . we should not postpone and refer and wish, but do broad justice where we are, by whomsoever we deal with, accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious, as the mystic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Most Common Thoreau Misquotation?

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 523
  It rankles this curmudgeon when the following beautiful line of Henry David Thoreau is butchered: In wildness is the preservation of the world. Again and again, people who cannot read what is on the page substitute wilderness for wildness. People see what they want to see, or expect to see. Here is an example ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Cloud Ate My Homework

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 140
  theodp writes "Over at CNET, James Urquhart sings the praises of cloud computing, encouraging folks to really listen to what is being said, understand how the cloud is being used, and seriously evaluate how this disruptive model will change your projects, your organization, and even your career. Fair enough. Over at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marking a Milestone: 200 Posts

  
  Traveling Through Time and Space — Authority: 412
  I missed saying anything about my 100th post, so Ive been watching to make sure I didnt miss commemorating my 200th. Here it is, and I feel compelled to share something profound with you. Im thinking. Im still thinking. While youre waiting to read something profound, know this: Im glad youre here, ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Sparrow Alights

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ---Henry David Thoreau How often has a sparrow alighted on your shoulder? Not one has done so on ...
  2 weeks ago

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