I learned this, at
least, by my experiment: 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.
……………
No face which we can
give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. For the most part, we are not where we are,
but in a false position. Through an
infinity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and
hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
Henry David Thoreau
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