For the Transcendentalism Unit materials (including the PowerPoint) click HERE.
For Henry David Thoreau click HERE.
For Ralph Waldo Emerson click HERE.
"The Power of Lonely" by Leon Neyfakh, The Boston Globe
Seeing the World Via Disparities in Possessions
"Buddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Goods Over People and Consumption Over Creative Activity" by Maria Popova
"wikiHow: How to Escape Materialism and Find Happiness"
"15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy"
"Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Our Capacity for 'Fertile Solitude'" by Maria Popova
"Physician Allison Ballantine's Short, Stirring Commencement Address on Living With Presence" by Maria Popova
"The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" by Maria Popova
"How to Find Yourself" by Maria Popova
"Electrifying Photos of Lightning" from CNN
"How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of our Time" by Maria Popova
"The Meaning of Life Interview Transcript"
"The Luxury of Solitude" by Linda Holmes
Louis C.K.: "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy"
How to Be Alone (is that Pluto sitting on the bed?!):
Why More Americans Are Living Alone
Double Rainbow!
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
~Steve Jobs
Mr. Spagnolo, artist extraordinaire. :)
Xavier Rudd expresses Transcendentalist Philosophy in his song "Messages"