A Key to Success No Matter What.... Be the Best Version of YOU. A Day at a Time. Some Thoughts from a Guy That Actually Cares. Inspired by an 1854 Published Author / Woodsman - Henry David Thoreau. E.4
What it takes daily for success means something different for everyone. Yet some keys linger as commonalities I find the older I get.
But I desire a simpler life, the more I have given away and the longer I have lived.
I am turning this into a series. (Edited into / on the 7th day of the 1st post I did on this since writing it)
I thought about this for a whole week, and it has been 7 days since I wrote this and read about Thoreau and his life and it has truly impacted me enough to carry this message and this fellow's beliefs forward for others. At the last minute here before the first week of this post-series pays out-- I came back to it, made the edits and committments to carry this forwards long term.
I will include this template with each post and inside each post you will find a quote from Thoreau, towards the end of each of these posts in this series. Past episodes I will include near the end also, to keep the focus on this man who has inspired me from the 1850's and hope it helps someone out there also.
Henry David Thoreau's thoughts on moving towards our dreams is something many of us have seen and read.
The following quote is only a small part of what Thoreau would feel, and then share in his writings following his 2 year off grid, backwoods experiment at Walden Pond in the 1850's and it inspires me:
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
I have pasted that screenshot text from WikiPedia, at the end of my blog. It fascinates me.
-- Why???
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
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-- My love of Bushcraft, the simple life, the outdoors/ living off grid, is 110% tied to this and causes me to think differently than I did years ago as I seek TRUE liberty, away from the propaganda, lies, and violence of "the state" and the corruption surrounding it.
As I mentioned earlier, it means different things, to different people.
What does success look like, what does success mean to me?
Many of us have asked ourselves this question a pile of times over the years. An example of a typical list might look like:
-- Travel more, enrich our lives and knowledge
-- Deepen our knowledge of Crypto and Blockchain wisdom for more Liberty
-- To earn enough money to achieve financial freedom.
-- Find and deepen the right relationships
-- Buy a waterfront vacation home
-- Find a place that is not filled with corruption
-- Spend more time with friends and family
These are relateable to many of us, I bet.
However, they are the results of success, not success itself. We can have these or similar things..... and be really miserable in our lives, and therefore NOT successful.
--
I like to help people but frankly am sick and tired of being left behind, forgotten about, stabbed in the back....... when I try and do the right thing or help others.
It bothers me. I am human. I have feelings and I care.
It is making me numb.
And I hate it.
I really try to approach it the best, most healthy way I can -- but it wears on you day after day. You question if it is worth it really.
I will keep trying.
It's important that we advance within ourselves with the knowledge and tools and right heart to do what we need to do.
I think this is the fundamental part of the equation inside for success from within; you cannot buy it at a seminar or with the latest app, or marketing tool.
I really am sick of the lies, of the state, the statists and sheep backing up the police state, while I really desire a simpler, off grid, self reliant lifestyle....
-- of course fought at every turn by THE STATE.
Sunlight, water, solar power, collecting rainwater, a garden for food since it was free decades ago, and such.
Yes, are we really free????
Today's Thoreau Quote:
--
Walden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses, see Walden (disambiguation).
Walden
Walden Thoreau.jpg
Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia.
Author Henry David Thoreau
Original title Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Country United States
Language English
Genre Memoir
Published August 9, 1854[1] (Ticknor and Fields: Boston)
Media type Print
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
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What it takes daily for success means something different for everyone. Yet some keys linger as commonalities I find the older I get.
But I desire a simpler life, the more I have given away and the longer I have lived.
I am turning this into a series. (Edited into / on the 7th day of the 1st post I did on this since writing it)
I thought about this for a whole week, and it has been 7 days since I wrote this and read about Thoreau and his life and it has truly impacted me enough to carry this message and this fellow's beliefs forward for others. At the last minute here before the first week of this post-series pays out-- I came back to it, made the edits and committments to carry this forwards long term.
I will include this template with each post and inside each post you will find a quote from Thoreau, towards the end of each of these posts in this series. Past episodes I will include near the end also, to keep the focus on this man who has inspired me from the 1850's and hope it helps someone out there also.
Henry David Thoreau's thoughts on moving towards our dreams is something many of us have seen and read.
The following quote is only a small part of what Thoreau would feel, and then share in his writings following his 2 year off grid, backwoods experiment at Walden Pond in the 1850's and it inspires me:
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
I have pasted that screenshot text from WikiPedia, at the end of my blog. It fascinates me.
-- Why???
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
--
-- My love of Bushcraft, the simple life, the outdoors/ living off grid, is 110% tied to this and causes me to think differently than I did years ago as I seek TRUE liberty, away from the propaganda, lies, and violence of "the state" and the corruption surrounding it.
As I mentioned earlier, it means different things, to different people.
What does success look like, what does success mean to me?
Many of us have asked ourselves this question a pile of times over the years. An example of a typical list might look like:
-- Travel more, enrich our lives and knowledge
-- Deepen our knowledge of Crypto and Blockchain wisdom for more Liberty
-- To earn enough money to achieve financial freedom.
-- Find and deepen the right relationships
-- Buy a waterfront vacation home
-- Find a place that is not filled with corruption
-- Spend more time with friends and family
These are relateable to many of us, I bet.
However, they are the results of success, not success itself. We can have these or similar things..... and be really miserable in our lives, and therefore NOT successful.
--
I like to help people but frankly am sick and tired of being left behind, forgotten about, stabbed in the back....... when I try and do the right thing or help others.
It bothers me. I am human. I have feelings and I care.
It is making me numb.
And I hate it.
I really try to approach it the best, most healthy way I can -- but it wears on you day after day. You question if it is worth it really.
I will keep trying.
It's important that we advance within ourselves with the knowledge and tools and right heart to do what we need to do.
I think this is the fundamental part of the equation inside for success from within; you cannot buy it at a seminar or with the latest app, or marketing tool.
I really am sick of the lies, of the state, the statists and sheep backing up the police state, while I really desire a simpler, off grid, self reliant lifestyle....
-- of course fought at every turn by THE STATE.
Sunlight, water, solar power, collecting rainwater, a garden for food since it was free decades ago, and such.
Yes, are we really free????
Today's Thoreau Quote:
--
Walden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses, see Walden (disambiguation).
Walden
Walden Thoreau.jpg
Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia.
Author Henry David Thoreau
Original title Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Country United States
Language English
Genre Memoir
Published August 9, 1854[1] (Ticknor and Fields: Boston)
Media type Print
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
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Walden is my jam! It's maybe my favorite book to study with my classes as an English teacher. And it's one of the best expressions of what true freedom can be in philosophy and literature. It really resonates with young people even today. Living in our natural environment opens up those doors to success and happiness that seem impossible to achieve in the artificial world. Visiting Walden Pond was a powerful experience for me personally. You can feel how the forest around it hasn't been touched since Thoreau's days and probably ever and how old the trees are. Your post reminded me of another quote by Robert Heinlein I read recently: "A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!"
Keep up the good work!
Best replies all nite in this series edition so far in 4 weeks.
Thanks for great comments here, honestly.
Awesome post, I really enjoyed it. I hope you appreciate the vote!
I appreciate all the votes!!!
Glad you liked it.
This series means a lot to me.
Walden was one of the first minimalists to go on the record through his writings. He sought to find himself and his way through the quiet of the Massachusetts woods, and to find the peace and harmony there that was lacking in his regular life.
Alone with one's self, secluded from the polluting thought of the day, is an intriguing way to reach personal insight into what it os that one believes, values, and holds to be true. Such an apropos idea in today's modern, news-analysis-propaganda environment.
Too bad we can't send all the media types into the wilderness too find their way - or not! Cheers!
Man, that is so right, what a great reply from you.
When I found this guy, it changed something in me to see his Liberty beliefs and outdoor beliefs, I was stunned.
Nice Blog,,,sir
It takes sometimes for an improvement, but with your eagerness in learning new things, you improve yourself day after day
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yes, you are right, we live and learn.
Just learn and learn and learn... dont stop learning that is how I define life. Its never ending trial and error.
thanks for sharing keep it up
I used to listen to Garrison Kellor quite a bit. i think there was some connection between him and Thoreau and Walden but I can't remember what it is... :-) I hope you have a WONDERFUL day!!! 😀 😃 😄
I love this series I am doing, I am so glad I found him, and for all the comments here on the blog, also.
I love your post here about being free. It is filled with honest emotion that moves me. Having experienced similar things by being kind, I no longer desire to be around those that would choose only to take and not give something back. Anything! I look forward to reading more of your future posts. Be well barrydutton🐓🐓
Oh snap, then you will likely enjoy my latest protest post tonite - you can see my bullhorn!!!
I was leading a protest w the national media there about pet bylaws and the idiots at city hall ... again.
If @aunt-deb is around, she would like to see it, I think. If you see her around.