finding peace in certain books

[sublimblendrend]

i feel like i went back in time. it's been awhile since i last opened this copy of thoreau's walden. i re-read it in two days and only now have i really come to appreciate the words (they make you read it when your young and naive in school and it makes no sense at that age - or you just don't care) but now i feel like i must live in a cabin with few luxuries. three v-dubs for under 17,000 doesn't mean anything to me. give me a lake, a garden for edibles and edibles and i think i could figure out the rest. it's painful to look at how many people live today with material things being the only goals in their short lives. paying for and restricting access to land... etc.

anyone else ever feel like trying to live a more natural life? the food that you grow just tastes better. the shade from a tree you planted yourself feels cooler... i don't know. happiness in life, IMO, is DOING what you feel is right.. it's unfortunate to see all the natural things in life being stripped.

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[aumbrellaforainydays]

i know what u mean. too bad thoreau is "too advanced" of literature for any middle or high schooler to truly feel what he's saying. i read it last year and it was a beautiful book, however his lifestyle may be too radical for the majority of us.

its hard to disconnect yourself from the grid... but what alot of aesthetics do teach us is that living is hard, we make it so, imo through our distractions. maybe we should all spend a concentrated time like thoreau in the woods, every month, year, lifetime understanding that sometimes the simple life is better.

we should start by making sure all our kids dont forget that nature still exists as it is, a place to free your mind. it seems that we have a lot of work to do, in this system of chaos, telling us whats good and whats bad, and whats fun and whats boring. nature's boring, video games arent. if only every kid in the world could read.

[PsilocibeJuggalo]

When I was in highschool we read "on Walden Pond" and it was good. I definitlty can appreciate HD Thoreau" writing and state more now. If I could live on a lake and farm and grow pot and shrooms that would be a simple but rewarding life....experiencing nature at it's roots. Technology is too much of a distraction. I like the internet and cell phones and video games but I feel like I am always missing out on something, mainly because I let other people craft my direction through advertising and media....

[Lefty]

I do understand what you are speaking of, and appreciate some classics, but find Irvine Welsch more to my taste. Motherfucker got it.

[farmerjohncc]

Here's mine - Please share yours!

"We check and repress the divinity that stirs within, to fall down and worship the divinity that is dead without us."

By the way, if you should happen to visit Boston take the time to go to Walden Pond...gorgeous! Thoreau did travel into town, Concord, quite regularly during that two year period of his life (as it was only a two mile walk from Walden). He had numerous visitors as well.

Thanks for bringing up Thoreau! Godfather of the Hippies?!

[dial8]

Lefty do you hold your pinky out when you sip hot tea?

Originally Posted by Lefty

I do understand what you are speaking of, and appreciate some classics, but find Irvine Welsch more to my taste. Motherfucker got it.

[dr.gonzo]

My favorite quote to this day "To rupture the spell of the ideology of a commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature can come forward."

[Seee]

I enjoy this one:

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

[CoyoteMesc]

In my short life I have found that
I do not want to live w/o either
I have live in larger cities and missed
the country, I have live deep in the country
and missed the city...
I feel in my heart and soul that I need
both to make myself complete and happy.

btw, I also feel that allowing your children
to see, enjoy, and appreciate mother nature
should be done often...

[sublimblendrend]

some of my favorites:

"The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision... that time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future."


"This whole Earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star...Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?"


please add more from any book of your choice. you are all here for a reason.. and i know, that you know your meaning of life or will soon figure it out.

[dr.gonzo]

'buy the ticket, take the ride'
also my fav. if you havent read this yet man...
in a way its the same as the movie but still makes you laugh at diffrent points.

"but what now? what comes next?"

and if you dont want to buy the damn thing.

here

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_s...as-script.html

[res]

When I was younger the state placed me into a boys program for troubled youth. It was a small island (we used to walk around the perimeter for exercise in the AM) that had no electricity or anything like that. The island was about a 45 min boat trip from the mainland. We had to chop our own wood for heat and to cook with, we had a huge garden, chicken coop, pigs, boat house, blacksmith building, outhouse, the works. The program was 6-9 months. Even though it was sort of a punishment, it was a good experience.

res