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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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"Our life is like a German Confederacy... The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which by the way are all external and superficial, is just an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose."

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“He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.”

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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… In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

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“There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”

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“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule… may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”

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"That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

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"You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are going to find it at all." - John Keating

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My verse is simply to take life one step at a time, and all I hope to contribute to the world are my kids who I hope will also follow this idea of free living. I refuse to fabricate a plan for my entire future, I’d rather just go day-by-day and let my future be unraveled by my experiences.

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We must refuse to allow society to conform us with its rope

As this will wither our humanity, obscuring our hope

Yet hope is so greatly valued by the rope bearer

For his hope is false, as he is blinded by millennia of error

His eyes are covered by some desire of society’s acceptance

So he moves in sync with his peers, unaware of this trance

At work, he gets promoted--should he be proud?

Proud of furthering the suppression of his real hopes--which now seem to be a distant cloud--

If he quits work in pursuit of a real life then they will call it insanity

How strong he is, if he will transcend the vanity

To cut the rope is to become a new entity

Then you will see the transparencies of society’s uniform identity

Oh how I pity them, for their life lacks fulfillment

They will have no spiritual reward, no matter the achievement

They allow others to define their success

Then they chase it-- for what? to impress?

But who is to blame? For they all are oblivious

So I am left wondering--why?-- I am curious

Why people can not see life clearly?--

--that the answer lies in solitude, for society is forever dreary

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6) "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd

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6) "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd

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8A) Me walking along the rocks at Windansea Beach.

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8A) Me walking along the rocks at Windansea Beach.

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8B) Me on top of the roof of an abandoned house

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8B) Me on top of the roof of an abandoned house

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8C) A friend and I were atop this cliff trying to reach a flag at Blacks Beach.

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8C) A friend and I were atop this cliff trying to reach a flag at Blacks Beach.

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It is the large institutions of the establishment, such as corporations and schools, that use their power within society to create traditions that obscure the tenets of transcendentalism for most individuals.

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Transcendentalism teaches a lifestyle in which a great appreciation for nature is a model for people to become self-reliant; only after achieving this lifestyle can an individual be a positive contributor to society without sacrificing their own life values in the process.
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