Art Of Living By Thoreau Walden
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Art Of Living By Thoreau Walden
Thoreau’s Art of Living In Thoreau’s Walden, he explores the art of living
by presenting a dichotomy of sojourning in nature. The life of participating
with nature considers living simply and wisely while cooperating with both its
lowest and highest elements. Thoreau calls for a change in life by changing the
conventional ideas of standard societal views and its participation with the
torpor of the material mass. Throughout Walden, Thoreau delves into his
surroundings, the very specifics of nature while trying to live the ideal life.
Perhaps the main theme and overbearing concept that Thoreau wishes to convey to
the reader both in the conclusion and throughout Walden, is that we must
recognize the great power and potential for new discovery and enjoyment in our
minds. Thus, Thoreau calls for an “ideological revolution to simplification”
in our lives and conveys a paradoxical view that the highest point of living is
the leading of a simple life of a balance between change and solitude. This life
is the art of activity within the art of structural living- a non-instrumental
way of enhancing one’s life through spiritual development and the cultivation
of the mind and body. The purpose for this enhancement is fostering the spirit
in its progress and not marred by material products or social structures. The
spirit involves activity with nature and must not be hindered by material
necessities Kim 2 demanded by society. Such progress is change within oneself,
within one’s mind and soul and ultimately achieved through self-recognition.
It is the recognizing of the self that leads to individualized experiences. This
art requires pure devotion of the individual and the divorce from the boundaries
of business and time. In doing so, the individual experiences a transcended
self, a “elevated piety” and “perennial youth ” (211). Thoreau compares
the art of and active life to one of unending youthfulness. He pervades the
importance of the youth as innocent and pure. Such life must not be tainted by
obscurities and the mundane routine of the city life but rather emerged,
submerged in the purest form of existence-nature. Thoreau equates the outdoors
(natural stimuli) with innocence when he states that “every child begins the
world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors” (17). Thoreau mirrors
youthfulness to nature in order to convey a need of constant rebirth into purity
and innocence that leads to a love of the earth. Thoreau pr...
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