Ch. 18 "Conclusion" of the 18 chapters of WALDEN (1854)
paragraph 5
I learned this, at least, by my
experiment (Building his house/
abode near Walden Pond),
that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which
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 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. In proportion as he simplifies
his life, the laws of the universe will
appear less complex, and solitude will
not be solitude, nor poverty poverty,
nor weakness weakness. If you have
built castles in the air, your work need
not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them.
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