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Thursday, July 18, 2024

A Walden state of mind

"…What I've also learned from Thoreau is that mindfulness, properly embraced, is a continuing pursuit, something to practice without expecting perfection. He chastised himself for missing stuff, but the important thing, he pointed out, is to keep trying. "Be so little distracted," he wrote in 1851, "your thoughts so little confused, your engagements so few, your attention so free, your existence so mundane, that in all places and in all hours you can hear the sound of crickets in those seasons when they are to be heard." 

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2024/0716/henry-david-thoreau-walden-pond-mindfulness-concord

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