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Originally Posted by kennusion
Transcendentalism is hard to describe. If you can describe it in lamen's terms, that's a bravo to you though. I know the concept of it, but.. I can't explain it because I don't fully understand it.
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Yes it was hard to explain it. I remember reading about it in classes and it was never truly explained but there were examples of the feelings that are associated with it.
My experience is like this. Let me share.
Have you ever looked out across a vast field and seen the morning mists slowly rising? Or stared out across the ocean from shore, or across a lake to a forest opposite of you? When you see these scenes, do you feel that you have a greater potential to accomplish anything, no matter the task? That is my meaning of transcendentalism. I feel that I am more connected to people and things, and that this connection gives me the power to greatness. Greatness that can be recognized.
Also, an addition that I feel I must put--success is not what you have taken from the world to gain noteriaty, but how have you bettered the world around you. What have you done that changed the world? Only then in these actions can one believe that there is a divine--even in the simplest of actions, like helping a neighbor, to solving the world's energy--for one will be forever immortalized, and if not their memory, then their actions in the past will never be lost for the bettered furture.