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1A) Walden- "Where I lived and What I lived for"

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1A) Walden- "Where I lived and What I lived for"

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“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
-Henry David Thoreau

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“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.”
-Henry David Thoreau

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“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“And as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. 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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“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great work of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,

Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,

Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
-Walt Whitman

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"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
-John Keating (Robin Williams)

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My contribution, or verse, in this song of life, will be to create art to inspire people or some sort of technological device that will help people.  This will be accomplished through traveling the world and seeing what people need, so that I could make it for them.

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Hush! Be silent!

Or else He will hear you.

Who you may ask?

Well He is the vile demon that goes by the name of Doubt.

He slithers across your bedroom floor and slaughters your dreams before you can even shout.

He crushes that voice inside whispering your hopes to you.

Stay guarded and protect your friends and family,

Because He doesn’t wait to attack,

Age, color, ethnicity, doesn’t faze Him,

He will do what He wants and He will take from you what you love most.

Spend every waking hour fighting Him,

Don’t let him keep you caged in.

Take up your fiery passion and wield that blazing inferno through His heart.

Take up the strength that you know you have existing inside you,

And fight Him with all the might that resides in your frame.

He will stop at nothing to end that ever growing whisper,

But you are stronger,

But you are stronger.

Once your battle has been waged and His bloody and beaten body lays on the tarnished soil beneath you,

You will no longer have to whisper your dreams into the night sky expecting no response,

You will finally have the freedom stand upon the rooftops and shout.

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5) Modern Day Example of Transcendentalism: Poem

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5) Modern Day Example of Transcendentalism: Poem

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“don’t be afraid to distance yourself from

everyone + everything and recoup. sort

out your thoughts. listen to your heart.

breathe. read a book. write about how

much your life has sucked - then write

about how much you can’t wait to see the

positive changes. relearn yourself. accept

all the hurt you've been through. forgive

anyone and everyone who’s hurt you. even

if that means doing it within, and never

physically or verbally reaching out. let go.

& rejuvenate. take a step away from the

chaos, and find peace. within.”

- Reyna Biddy

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“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

― Plato

Rupi Kaur's book of poems, "The Sun and Her Flowers," is something I love to read when I want to feel connected to myself and when I want to escape the stresses of day to day life.

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7A) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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7A) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
-Pablo Picasso
I'm painting a galaxy of stars using my imagination in the peace and quiet of nature around me.

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7B) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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7B) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul."
-Wyland
I stare out at the infinite stretch of the deep, blue ocean, feeling free from all the pressure of the world.

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7C) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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7C) Living Life Through Transcendentalism

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"Yoga is not about self-improvement. It is about self-acceptance."
- Gurmukh
Yoga is a place that helps relax my mind and it gives me the time to find myself and to connect with the nature around me.

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8) Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life 

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8) Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life 

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Challenges to living the transcendental life in the twenty-first century are iphones and television.

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"Transcendentalism teaches people that nature and individuality is the beacon that guides the ships of life through turbulent water, to finally reach their truest and purest form." This is just a short snipet of how nature is the teacher that teaches independence and uniqueness to flourish in this world uniformity.