...present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted^noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise ofjjome...

...upon the natural world. "Sometimes in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath," he wrote, "I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon,...sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant...

...present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed soliiude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by...

...nature. There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiselessly through the house, until, by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some...

...having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, whilejhejbirds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my...

...present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery. ... I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works." Thoreau's...

...Sometimes, in a summer morning ... I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed...sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in my west window, or the noise of some traveler's wagon on the distant highway,...

...in enlightenment. Thoreau describes his enlightenment experience in "Sounds" from Walden: Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...

...nature as do many creatures of the wild, simply by doing nothing: Sometimes, in a summer morning ... I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...

...consternation nor ar.y want."161 At times Thoreau closely approaches the Hindu state of Samadhi: Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...