Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Read The Best


Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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If you already meditate or plan to try the easy meditation techniques you'll find these Henry David Thoreau Quotes a real help.
He lived in the late nineteenth century. And became a well-know philosopher, environmentalist and meditator.
He's inspired Ghandi, Tolstoy - modern meditation teachers like Jon Kabat-Zinn.... and maybe You.
But what was his message?
Can he show you ways to deal with stress in your life?
Find out here.. (click to scroll down page).

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Live simply

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify
I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. Instead of a million count half a dozen.
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the thousand and one items to be allowed for, a man who survives must indeed be a great calculator.
Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes , five and reduce other things in proportion.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Live in the present moment

Only the day dawns to which we are awake
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all ages.

Don't rush

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence. That petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine tomorrow.

How to Live

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation.
If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings why should we run?
Be it life or death we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities. If we are alive let us go about our business.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.

The Value of Meditation

Direct your eye right inward and you'll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them a be an expert in home cosmography

Nature, Solitude and Happiness

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature, and has his senses still
I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature. In the very pattering of the drops. In very sound and sight around my house, an infinite an unaccountable friendliness all at once like at atmosphere sustaining me.
Meditation Tip: Try going out in nature. To your local park or wood - whatever's nearby. Then allow yourself to stop. Listen, Look at what's around you. Next bring your attention to your breathing, body or to walking itself.
I've explained how to do this in these free guided meditation scripts...

Thoreau's Final Words

On his death-bed Thoreau was asked by friends if he had made his peace with God. He replied…
"I did not know we had ever quarrelled."

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Where to Find out More About Thoreau...
You can read about Thoreau's 2 year retreat to the countryside in Walden: A Life in the Woods. Dover Publications.
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