An Essay on Civil Disobedience: Thoreau

True reform was interior, private and wholly individual. Reforming oneself meant discovering the divinity within oneslef.

The transcendental individualist who emerges is appealing and convincing, because the vivid details of the woods, the pond and the seasons are used as symbolic means to validate his vision of a spiritual life.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose upon themselves, for their own advantage.

A corporation has no conscience but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Ramblings

It's amazing how the human mind is the greatest source of all worry.
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I thought I was quite mature, but after seeing how I think sometimes, and the way I behave, I just realised that I have yet so much to learn, and that I'm still quite immature. I hope that I am able to remain as open minded as I am right now, to learn the lessons that life throws at me, and to grow from it instead of letting it affect me. I also need to learn that emotions are natural, we have to let them flow, but also let them go, instead of holding on forever.