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Wow. It’s been a very long time since I’ve found myself this challenged or enthralled by a book. Thoreau’s Walden. I’m only forty pages into it, and have found myself scrambling for a pen and a journal to write down that which most catches my attention, reading passages aloud to my patient husband, and having to re-read passages to be sure I’ve missed nothing, yet sure, at the same time that I have. For something written in 1845 to be so relevant and profound today is truly amazing. My mind whirls at the implications…
From page 19…
“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. 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.”
This means even more to me in light of this:
Psalm 111:10 (King James Version)
10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
More thought on this later, I’m sure…
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