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genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were

sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in

my next excursion? (Thoreau 394-5). This is one of the most famous passages

from Walden. These lines have been read by millions of people since they were

published and have shaped many lives into personal happiness. This is another

?burrowing? perspective but this time the burrowing is done inside of our

own lives with the imagery of using our own bodies. Thoreau gives us his thesis

statement of why he moved to Walden and what he hoped to find. ?Cutting? our

images and lives down to the core, reaching the depths of one?s soul, starting

over again with just the essentials of the mind is how he will find this lost

treasure that so many of us have lost. These passages remind me of a warrior?s

speech before going to battle (like a Spartan!) in the epic tales, or like the

quests for the Holy Grail, stating that if he does not find the meaning of life

so obviously then he will continue his search relentlessly making this his human

goal. In my opinion, this man really lived with wonderful awareness, taking

every hour of being as a gift and savoring everything that life, not society,

had to offer. Thoreau saw with transparent eyes into the lowest depths of world

and then up to the highest zeniths of creation to find what most people never

will.

Thoreau, H.D. A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, The Maine

Woods, Cape Cod. Lib. Of America. New York, 1985.

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