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individual, the more we each experience                There are many like me, and like this

        collectively.  Each one of us feeds the pot.           author, who find meaning in life by their
                                                               own design.  There is this born within

        “If a man does not keep pace with his                  each of us, this ability to construct and
        companions, perhaps it is because he hears  design our own lives.  This is what lies at
        a different drummer. Let him step to the               the core of true spiritual experience and

        music which he hears, however measured                 expression, when we recognize ourselves as
        or far away.” - Henry David Thoreau,                   part of this greater whole and we learn to

        Walden (1854)                                          view ourselves in co-sponsorship with it.


        PERSONAL FREEDOM                                              “As long as possible live free and

                                                                                 uncommitted.”
        If I stand for nothing else, let me stand              - Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

        and be remembered as a voice that spoke
        to freedom, freedom for the individual to              Chapter 8 from the book The Thoreau
        self-determine, and to find within himself             Whisperer by Cathryn McIntyre

        his truest nature.  That is what most                  Copyright 2018 - All Right Reserved -
        inspires and inspired me.                              Not to be copied or reproduced without

                                                               written consent.
        Society has no right to tell a man how to
        live, to hinder his personal freedom in                                Cathryn McIntyre

        any way, so if a man chooses a particular                              Cathryn McIntyre is an
        path because of events of his life that have                           independent author and

        formed him in a certain way, then so be it                             researcher who has studied the
        his choice and his destiny.  Let him have                              literary history of Concord,
        the freedom not to conform, but to find                                Massachusetts for over 25 years,
                                                                               both in university setting and
        instead another way to live, and let him               independently.  She is a psychic and clairvoyant,
        live without judgment.  There should be                an astrologer, a UFO experiencer, a ghost

        no judgment upon a man who chooses to                  investigator and an avid genealogist with
        live life outside society’s frame.                     ancestral ties to the Mayflower and to writers:
                                                               Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau.
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