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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Showing posts with label Thoreau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoreau. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
WHat a Companion is Thoreau
"For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant. It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company."
COULD IT BE SAME "JUDGE ME BY MY INTENTIONS NOT ACTIONS."
COULD IT BE SAME "JUDGE ME BY MY INTENTIONS NOT ACTIONS."
Henry David Thoreau of the waldens pond only forty mile north of here.
What a beautiful statement about learning from the rishi of Walden.I was very impressed by statement of MArtin Luther KIng III son of the freedom fighter decendent of Gandhi,"A visit to India Can only be Pilgrimage."
SomeBody was asking what could be our places of pilgrimages .I thought a minit and my answer was waldens pond.hm most agreed.Left us thinking.This rishi inspired Gandhi.
" We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider how little this village does for its own culture. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. We need to be provoked,—goaded like oxen, as we are, into a trot. We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves. We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental aliment. It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure—if they are, indeed, so well off—to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives"
SomeBody was asking what could be our places of pilgrimages .I thought a minit and my answer was waldens pond.hm most agreed.Left us thinking.This rishi inspired Gandhi.
" We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider how little this village does for its own culture. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. We need to be provoked,—goaded like oxen, as we are, into a trot. We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves. We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental aliment. It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure—if they are, indeed, so well off—to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives"
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