Want to avoid sin? Work hard. (Thoreau)
June 1st, 2006 | Published in Life, Quotes, Religion, Work | 1 Comment
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality…. If you would avoid uncleanness, and all the sins, work earnestly, though it be at cleaning a stable.
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), p. 184
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm (#)
He was indeed right. Life has tremendous joy in it if we could all be pure and innocent like
children. The best way to avoid this problem is to put yourself in constant
creative mental activity or creative physical work. This takes a little getting used to ,but it
introduces so many gifts as he had commented on.