How to comprehend hard books like Walden?

Nucleus
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:41:03 +0000

Thanks alamode for the paper! Can someone help me define this quotation? Or at least tell me what you think it means?

“Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” (P. 232)

Thanks again!