https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch Transcendental Journal en-us 2019-09-26 21:55:08 UTC 2025-11-04 14:59:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f307.png 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342464 "I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail." - Henry David Thoreau. 
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This quote displays the second tenet of transcendentalism because Thoreau wants people to live a life that is focused on a few things that concern themselves not the hundreds of things going on in the outer world. ]]> 2019-10-08 22:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342464 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342665 Walter Whitman´s ¨O Me! O Life¨ was a piece that essentially asked what the purpose of living was. Whitman answers his question and shockingly declared that it doesn't matter how ridiculous something is. What matters is simply contributing. Similarly, in Dead Poet´s Society the motivation of Carpe Diem or seize the day gives the same advice of doing something for the sake of doing it. ]]> 2019-10-08 22:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342665 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342685 Follow your intuition and do what you know is true. ]]> 2019-10-08 22:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342685 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342718 I will contribute to the powerful play that goes thundering on by involving myself in as many genres as I can. No actor should be typecast into one role. The only way to make a meaningful impact is to experience everything possible. A life of routine is easily forgettable and my verse will be the discarded draft from the beginning of a symphony never to be sung. I don't want a story of "almost" and "what-ifs" of events I could have experienced. My verse will be the firm decisions and confident choices that become the bellowing voice inspiring others to leave their routine and take control of their own life. ]]> 2019-10-08 22:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342718 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342907 City lights are all you've known 
But city lights aren't all you're shown 
Look beyond the city
Look into those unknowns 
There you'll find your remedy 
There you'll find humanity
Your city's filled by millions
But you have no community. 
You need not travel to Brazilians 
With costly sights worth billions
Go beyond the city
To see inner rebellions

Run from the world's authority
To get to live deliberately 
Leave the ones and zeros 
To get to live freely
Leave behind your lows 
Beyond the city you chose
Head to the sun 
Follow as it glows
One last light till you´re done 
Till you rest from your run 
Beyond the city you know 
Quick there´s only one 

Here you can slow 
Watch colors lit aglow 
Rest and reflect 
On all that you know 
You´ll find the affect 
Of city life unchecked
Find yourself here
Your thoughts will collect
The truth is so near
Your intuition so clear
Since you left the city held dear
Since you left the city held dear]]> 2019-10-08 22:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395342907 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343044 In modern society we still have elements of the transcendental movement today with art movements like the minimalism shown in Bernard Simunovic which reflect the desire to become simplified and allows focus more on intuitive concepts rather than detailed realism. ]]> 2019-10-08 22:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343044 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343103 In order to truly get in touch with their own thoughts a person must make time to transcend that is not interfered with by the rest of their schedule. ]]> 2019-10-08 23:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343103 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343665 - In the largest picture on the left I am feeling the sun on my face and settling in to nature. 
- In the top right photo a friend captured me covering my eyes as I try to attempt meditation. 
- In the bottom right photo I am looking down at my friend as we discuss how we felt at the end of our time in nature.
These photos all relate to transcendentalism because although I was with a friend we each tried to enjoy the scenery individually and come up with our own thoughts about it. ]]> 2019-10-08 23:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395343665 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395344167 A big challenge to being able to enjoy transcendentalism is the inability to be self-reliant and the increasing global collaboration. ]]> 2019-10-08 23:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/395344167 338969 https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/398310519 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mxP4SGrdICVvPKgU3hEBWVw31dKjWdH-g-CpPonqHL0/edit]]> 2019-10-16 06:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/338969/40t9r3ek2wch/wish/398310519