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To which need we attend...to the Self (superficial concerns of practical life), or to the Soul (search for meaning beyond our mere existence)? This book addresses both, using narrative and literature as well as philosophy and religion, to teach the l
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”
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“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
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“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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This is a group for anyone who is even semi-interested in philosophy. The best part; you don't even have to know anything about philosophy you just ha ...more
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