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1A Quote: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" 

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1A Quote: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" 

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"When a traveler asked Wordsworth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered, ‘Here is his library, but his study is out of doors.’”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walden

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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, --no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. Even the corpse has its own beauty."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

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My verse is to spread love, not hate. As a Christian-Catholic, I’m a firm believer in positivity through hope and faith, but regardless of one’s beliefs, we should all share the same notion to rid ourselves of hate, and to spread love and kindness everywhere. I want to give the world my absolute love. To do this, I would love to be a Doctor, or a Genetecist, who will come up with a new invention to cure deadly diseases. I want to create organizations/programs for high school students that emphasizes the effect of kindness on people. II would love to travel to less fortunate countries and provide them with care and more financial support. To spread love, not hate, is my verse. This is what I stand for.

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I stay put in my place of haven surrounded by the everlasting beauty

My white and black headphones are almost engulfed into my ears

And I wonder, in a place of such beauty, how my mind is somehow clouded

The rays of the sun comfort me as they emit their warmth onto my skin

But my fingers still feel like tense prunes, even though I haven’t been under water yet

I begin to stare at the mountains across the quiet ocean

But is it really quiet?

My eyes follow the shape the waves form as they collide with each other

But the social media vibrations of the “anything-but-social” texts make my fingers quiver

I’m missing out on the hummingbird’s soft cadences that I don’t even know about

And the keyboard clicks are finding their way into my already consumed ears

I shuffle my sticky feet through the light brown grains as the cool foamy water splashes onto me

The aroma of the salty water begins to amplify its presence, begging to be noticed by me

It’s too bad that I’ve become deaf

And my eyes are glued down

Didn’t know I was blind

Until I looked up for a second

And my mouth fell just a bit as I stare in awe at Her beauty

Earth, yes, that is She

My eyes are unglued and my ears are unplugged

My mind is no longer clouded, my skin not pruney

I can now hear the hummingbird’s cadences

I’ve looked up

And I realize that after all this time, though I once was

I’m no longer deaf

And no longer blind

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6) Transcendental Song: "We Are The World" by Michael Jackson

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6) Transcendental Song: "We Are The World" by Michael Jackson

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8a) Me taking in the breathtaking view at Yosemite. 

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8a) Me taking in the breathtaking view at Yosemite. 

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8b) My best friend and I enjoying a beautiful La Jolla sunset.

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8b) My best friend and I enjoying a beautiful La Jolla sunset.

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8c) Me transcending during a moment of calamity at Big Bear Lakes.

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8c) Me transcending during a moment of calamity at Big Bear Lakes.

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A photograph I took at Niagara Falls when a gorgeous rainbow popped up. It has no edit at all.

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Me at Barona, walking alongside the stunning lake.

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9) Challenges to Living Out Transcendental Tenets

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9) Challenges to Living Out Transcendental Tenets

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My horse Domino and I in the Dominican Republic.

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Transcendentalism Project  1A. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Ralph Waldo Emerson As I was reading “Where I Live...