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News Article 1: Arendt and the Pilgrims: Individualism, Community, and American Exceptionalism by James Martel

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News Article 1: Arendt and the Pilgrims: Individualism, Community, and American Exceptionalism by James Martel

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This article is focused on individualism and community which we think are contradicting words but what about the individualism of a community. This may not be breaking traditions but still the community itself stands apart from the crowd and forms their own beliefs based on their own experiences.

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Arendt and the Pilgrims: Individualism, Community, and American Exceptional...: Discover GALILEO

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The one blue butterfly all alone may be by itself but it is also the most beautiful out of all the other ones. Some times being yourself, who is so different from everyone else, can be super hard, but people like Thoreau and Emerson embraced that because they knew that is where self fulfillment lies and where start to become self reliant and in control of our own thought, beliefs, and minds. It's that initiative that comes with living in a world with a bunch of copycats.

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Podcast: Super Soul Conversationswith Oprah

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Podcast: Super Soul Conversationswith Oprah

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When listening to a few of the episodes to this podcast it reminded me of living intentionally and finding your own voice in the mist of a chaotic world. Super Soul encourages you to challenge yourself and to grow in every aspect of your life.

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Super Soul Summer: Brené Brown Rising Strong

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Quote 4: "It's not the length of life, but the depth."            -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote 4: "It's not the length of life, but the depth."            -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This quote implies intentional living. Some people idol working out or eating healthy in order to gain a long and healthy life but what Emerson is saying a long and healthy life don't really matter if you don't expand yourself spiritually and intellectually.

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Quote 3: "With are your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?"                -Henry David Thoreau

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Quote 3: "With are your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?"                -Henry David Thoreau

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This quote is centered around rising above tradition. In this day and age everyone is all about technology and we have a very scientific run world but the point that Thoreau makes is that science can not dignify the life of a person, it can analysis the persons body but it can not see the soul. This breaks tradition because man has always searched for new ways to develop culture through science and Thoreau proclaims we must live in the present and not the future.

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News Article 2: Children and Chores: Give kids responsibilities that help them thrive while learning self reliance. by Joel Salatin

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News Article 2: Children and Chores: Give kids responsibilities that help them thrive while learning self reliance. by Joel Salatin

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This article is about teaching children the significance of self reliance and knowing how to be responsible for themselves. The article talks about how giving them little tasks such as chores will bring about this independence so that when they become older they'll already know how take care of themselves and others.

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CHILDREN AND CHORES: Give kids responsibilities that will help them thrive ...: Discover GALILEO

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Going back through my journal from May of 2017 I found this little passage I had written. This passage reminds me of the concept of over soul which connects God, man, and nature because of the line, "You are the glue that bides all my shattered pieces". God is the overall Creator and King but we are connected to Him as well as nature. He is binding all the parts together

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I took this picture at my most favorite place in the world. The Life Teen camp called Covecrest has been a special place in my life since I was as little as 10 years old. The beauty of God's creation outshines everything on earth when you're at this camp deep in the mountains far away from the humdrum of busy people living their busy miserable lives. In these mountains life finds meaning and we learn from God and nature together by looking at the beauty and all its complexity and then seeing how simple it all really is. So much yet so little. It expands the mind to think beyond itself.

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The song Note to Self by Ben Rector shows an aspect of transcendentalism that a lot of people don't remember to follow through with which is intentional living. It is easy to go through the motions and cycles of life without realizing you've just missed one more moment with someone you love or missed a moment to show love. The song says, "Note to self, don't let yourself worry quite as much, it'll end up fine enough it always has up until now. Something else, you should think of other people a little more, you should have thought of that before because of everything you've written down. This is the first note that you wrote for someone else. Note to self. I don't know how long I have to keep reminding myself to be who I want to be and not somebody else. I just thought by now I'd figure out the who and how I want to be." Ben Rector's song is all about being intentional with the way we live and truly thinking about in what ways we are spreading goodness to the earth. By going through the everyday motions we are not living with any purpose or bettering ourselves but when we take a step back and truly think about why we make certain actions it forces us to think about our intentions towards others and towards ourselves.

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Quote 2: "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote 2: "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What Emerson is saying with this quote is that we tend to over complicate just about everything in life. We create a lot of our own giants and battles as a way of making ourselves feel that we're always busy, there's always something to do and we always have to be struggling with something or someone. But Emerson says no. Simplify. When we created a cluttered head space and give into the lie that we constantly have to be busy and moving we're not allowing ourselves the simplicity of simply resting. Rest and silence are powerful assets to life, in fact without rest and silence we don't give ourselves the opportunity to grow spiritually and physically. We are called to spend time in the calm instead of creating drama and tasks for ourselves. So simplify your thoughts because it is only through a quiet mind that we can truly listen.

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Quote 1: "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."           -Henry David Thoreau

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Quote 1: "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."           -Henry David Thoreau

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This quote said by Henry David Thoreau is a statement that embodies all of transcendentalism working together as one. The statement reinforces the concept of self reliance and not living but simply being. One can think they know who they are having gone through all the steps in life they believe to be correct but Thoreau's point is you can go through your whole life thinking you're one person when you truly haven't lived. We're meant to transcend above society and the motions of life in order to truly find ourselves which involves getting lost and sometimes hitting rock bottom. It is at our toughest moments that we learn the most.

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Song 2: Stick to the Status Quo by Tyler Henson

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Song 2: Stick to the Status Quo by Tyler Henson

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Although this songs title contradicts the ideas of transcendentalism there is a line at the end of the song sung by Gabriela and troy, the two main characters who are being criticized by their peers for participating in the musical at their school. They sing, "Don't stick to the stuff you know. If you want to go far gotta reach for your star. Just follow your dreams and go! Don't stick to the status quo! Don't stick to the stuff you know! No, you got to be true to the thing that you do don't be afraid to show you won't stick to the status quo!" These characters are saying not to conform to what society tells you to be but to form your own thoughts and beliefs through self discovery which comes from individualism and knowing who you are.

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This image reflects the very meaning of nature as teacher. In the newer Disney film Moana the main character, daughter of the village chief, struggles to discover who she is in her small village where no one leaves. Moana goes against tradition and obedience to her father in order to discover her own individualism as well as save her family and the rest of the world. Te Fiti, the godess of nature embodies an oversoul spirt

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The image of God's hand reaching down to earth shows the connection between God, nature and man.Because He is reaching down to the earth instead of us reaching up it shows God's humility and contentment with nature and man. You can see that where the clouds are opening through the clouds of darkness that God is transcending His light down to earth.

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This poem by Margaret Fuller is centered around the over soul which connects God, man and nature but also the idea that we transcend above the rational and empirical meaning that we are more than just living, we are being. And by saying that we are being means that we are more than just a body but a soul and body connected as one that works together in order to explore thought, nature and spirituality.

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There are who separate the eternal light

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John Green's crash course on Social Influence explains psychologically how conformity works and is portrayed in every day life. Nonconformity takes a huge role in transcendentalism because when we conform to society or authority we lose a sense of individualism that we claim the right to have just by being born. Conformity is essentially denying self reliance ans your rights as a human being to embody whatever you chose to.

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Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38

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The very song itself is called simplicity and is centered around simplifying your life and intentionally living for God. The opening lines of the song say, "I come in simplicity, longing for purity to worship you in spirit and truth, only you. Lord, strip it all away until only you remain, I'm coming back to my first love, only you". These very words imply transcending above the rational and empirical and allowing our spirits to flourish as part of who we are.