Been a while hasn't it? It's been an interesting few months. The nameless inertia that seemed to dull my days has been shed, or, at least, so it would appear. I've been reading lately and thinking... reading and thinking... thinking and reading. My thoughts are still very much a blur, so much so that I've been having trouble sleeping on account of my mind refusing to pause. So, here I am, letting my wheels spin free in that hope that something with a degree of form may come of it ultimately.
"To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons may be safe fighting, indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed has been to see that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires." - Junius
If at all you know me, even a little, you will take offense over my words . For it is out of respect that I try to speak with honesty.
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
The question is becoming clearer with each passing day of turmoil.
"Nature loves symmetry." - Louis de Broglie
The photon is at once both wave and particle as is matter. Does it therefore follow that man - as he relates to that within and that without - is dual-natured as well? Or does realization of the self demand reconciliation between the two?
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau
Am I lost? If so, when? Is it when I wander, often aimlessly, within the corridors of my own mind? Or is it when I walk, seemingly with purpose, the streets out in the wilderness of human society?
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau
The aim is to distill the process of living until I arrive at the truth of my nature. The first step is to paint, in my mind, a clear vision of the ideal. (Needless to say, this process will be lifelong and iterative.)
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the sufferage of the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must possess the conviction to heed mine own voice and the stillness of mind to speak clearly to myself.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” - Henry David Thoreau
Indeed, I must be prepared for any test of my courage and resolve.
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, above all, I must seek balance.
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Importantly, the converse if often untrue. Many who are misunderstood and presume themselves great, do so falsely.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - Henry David Thoreau
I am off then, to do, to live.
"To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons may be safe fighting, indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed has been to see that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires." - Junius
If at all you know me, even a little, you will take offense over my words . For it is out of respect that I try to speak with honesty.
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
The question is becoming clearer with each passing day of turmoil.
"Nature loves symmetry." - Louis de Broglie
The photon is at once both wave and particle as is matter. Does it therefore follow that man - as he relates to that within and that without - is dual-natured as well? Or does realization of the self demand reconciliation between the two?
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau
Am I lost? If so, when? Is it when I wander, often aimlessly, within the corridors of my own mind? Or is it when I walk, seemingly with purpose, the streets out in the wilderness of human society?
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau
The aim is to distill the process of living until I arrive at the truth of my nature. The first step is to paint, in my mind, a clear vision of the ideal. (Needless to say, this process will be lifelong and iterative.)
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the sufferage of the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must possess the conviction to heed mine own voice and the stillness of mind to speak clearly to myself.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” - Henry David Thoreau
Indeed, I must be prepared for any test of my courage and resolve.
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, above all, I must seek balance.
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Importantly, the converse if often untrue. Many who are misunderstood and presume themselves great, do so falsely.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - Henry David Thoreau
I am off then, to do, to live.
