Thoreau’s journals have many comments on the nature of journals, of which this one is closest to my own impetus for writing one, albeit patchily: I put off writing for weeks because once I start there is so much to say, even keeping only to one’s...
Another interesting take on authenticity. I like Thoreau’s hopeful assumption that being what we are leans towards worthy and nobler qualities.And curious about that invitation – what or who does he believe is inviting us to be ourselves?’We are...
This quotation from Thoreau’s journal struck me, particularly as soon after I came across what seemed a perfect riposte to the question it raises, featured here, by a poet writing a few decades earlier, John Keats. ‘Life! who knows what it is, what it...
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