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Jun 20, 2018 · Thoreau's claim is simply false: the mass of people in the world do not lead a life of quiet desperation but, rather, of happiness. Moreover, there are methods that help many who...
- What Do You Want?
- Why Is This The Case?
- Punishment Or Paradise?
- But Is This “Wisdom” Actually True?
- So Why Is Their Desperation “Quiet?”
This seems like a simple enough question. On the surface, anyway. And yet, buried in that seemingly simple four word phrase is a tangled mess of assumptions, fears, misunderstandings, myths, ideas, conflicts, beliefs, traditions AND the reason why so many people fail to ever get (or realize, achieve, manifest) what they REALLY want for themselves… ...
Why do so many people die with the “song still in them” as Thoreau so artfully and accurately noted all those years ago? THIS is what we are going to explore. Together. Because “those other” people we see everyday are no different from me. No different from you. No different from those who seem to be “lucky” and those who never catch a break. And t...
Is living in the here and now, i.e. your life, something to be enjoyed? In other words, do you believe that you are here to live fully, freely, abundantly? After all, if this is the only life we get (or at least, the only one we can focus on at the moment) shouldn’t we be living it to the fullest? To put it another way, is our life supposed to be a...
Now, mind you, people pass along this “wisdom” AS IF the underlying philosophy behind either approach to the problem of suffering is true, as in “go to your grave” kind of truth. I worked in ministry and hospice work long enough to hear both versions of this approach countless times. And each time such superficial “answers” to the reality of human ...
It’s one thing to point out HOW so many people suffer in their day to day lives. But WHY do so many people suffer in silence? To me there are two apparent reasons for this. The first lies in the fact that traditional forms of wisdom as passed down through tradition and upbringing have essentially elevated the status quo as the NORM for orienting on...
Mar 20, 2017 · Thoreau’s famous quote — “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation” — is most frequently used as a reason for following one’s passion and achieving a life which avoids the mediocrity of playing it small and attains to extra-ordinary success.
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Jun 24, 2024 · Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Misquotation of a line from Walden cited above, with the addition of a spurious ending. For this and other misattributions, see: The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page
In Walden, Thoreau describes "quiet desperation" as the condition in which most people live, driven by unfulfilled desires and societal pressures. This phrase highlights the inner turmoil and...
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – The first half of this quotation is a misquotation from Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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