Let me share a brief moment from Walden with all the friends who want to know why I love this book so much and read it so many times.
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.”
And this is how Thoreau himself actually experienced such moments when he was in Walden:
“At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.”
Just imagine living in a world where every pine needle is the string of the world’s symphonic orchestra. What a world. What a wonderful man Thoreau was!
In a similar analogy Rumi considers the trees clapping their leaves and dancing with their branches to the music that the winds sing.
I live for beauty and I find the beauty that I live for in these sentences. Really what else do we need for a good life except helping more people to appreciate "what is inevitable and has a right to be?"
Ali
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