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Transcendentalism and You
Anyone here a transcendentalist? Anyone know what a transcendentalist is? Anyone like the ideas of the transcendentalist? If you do know, I hope you to read the bolded. If you don't know you can read some of what it means to be a Transcendentalist, to me atleast.
I figured out that my beliefs are closely to that of the old English Romantic and American Transcendentalist. We all are connected to the divine and that Holy Spirit, and that it is part of everything we do; Nature is the key teacher to all questions a man should ask; and simplicity is innocence and internal strength.
The idea of the “Over Soul,” a connection we all share, has alway fascinated me. This Soul that we all tap into allows us not to worry about a creator above us—for we are part of that creation.
Discovery has always been my goal even as a child and even today I yearn to discover some new land, new language, new people. I always have this insurmountable feeling of… joy when I help someone understand and even looking out across the lake near my house. I feel that by sitting there I am learning something. I think that any problem in the world could be solved if we sat the troubled down and had them stare out across this serene lake. At night I look out and know that the answers are there, somewhere waiting for us to find them.
I believe that a modern transcendentalist can keep the innocence of a simply life even with complicated forces in this world, like that of technology. The tools of gaining knowledge and understanding should not be discarded--the means to set off on new frontiers should not be abandoned. If a person can take complexity, and harness it for simplicity, that, in my opinion, is purity.
Things I feel hinder that purity, as did the transcendentalists, would be material possession, for that implies separation. Other things would be that of desire for power, or control. These things are not needed if one just goes to learn.
Whatever answers we find, not only will they come from each other and within ourselves, but from out there in the heavens. Many religions and philosophers place some great guiding force to exist within that sky above us, and I wouldn’t doubt that there is something out there, begging us to find it. Thoreau said that knowledge does not end at that which we can see with our eyes, but ends at that which we can imagine in our minds.
What is everyone else’s take on the transcendentalism? I personally love the ideals and teachings through it. How can this not be a noble view of life? Again, just shoot the breeze with anyone.
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