Which quotes or pieces of advice do you have committed to memory? Why have those stuck with you? & another pic of the sky!! & Maybe some Transcendentalism ?

 

I love love love these three pictures of the sky. The first two were taken today and today the last one was taken Sunday after my first run!!

I have a list of quotes in my notes that I have that have moved me in some way, shaped my life and I will also reference a book chapter in Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by David Klein,  I will put these in a bulletin list and maybe a small paragraph as a why they in general impact me. I will not be putting all of them on here because it turns out that I have a lot of quotes lol.

• "When things shift radically in your life you have to almost want to have a radical perspective shift. You can't force it, but if you can stay calm, all of a sudden, it comes." - Lana Del Rey
• "Tired of the eternal effort to fight our way through raw matter, we chose another way and sought to embrace the infinite. We went inside ourselves. - Henrik Steffens
• "But good God, what's wrong with me, after all? What am I missing? Why this emptiness, this nostalgia? What is this anxiety, as if I loved something I didn't know? - Clarice Lispector
• Crescat Scientia; Vita Excolatur (let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched)
• "The profound sense of being understood, deciphered, and accepted overwhelmed me." Neda Aria
• "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." - George Orwell

Every Time I Find Meaning of Life, They Change It's chapter about suicide really moved me. The quote that he uses to introduce this chapter is: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental questions of the philosophy. All the rest - whether or nor the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has none or twelve categories - comes afterwards." - Albert Camus. I have touched on it twice so far but coming out and saying it aloud has always eluded me. I think about it a pit of despair rolls in and I get really emotional and I have not figured out why. I still sometimes feel very sad but not as much as I have before.

Okay these are some of the quotes that have moved me. I think the quotes about missing something that you do not know a craving that cannot be satisfied moves me a lot because I have something in me. I do not know how to describe it or even if I could but I want so much for something I cannot attain and trust me I have tried. Also shifting your perspective allows me to go with the flow (?) as much as someone like me can. (meaning I am prettyyy uptight blog ha ha) I am actually doing this blog early because I want to go running and I want to make sure I am catching up on homework. So yeah I think I am happy with the quotes I chose. (((Also I am obvi making up for the short blogs from the last two times))) 

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Transcendentalism is a 19th century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were bound together by an adherence that the belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight of logic and experience. Several famous writes like Henry David Thoreau, Emerson,  and Margaret Peabody to name a few. I want to touch on what Emerson believed in although he did not think of himself as a transcendentalist the three points were: form of idealism, moral actions and rejoice in their goodness, and contemplating beauty. Some think Kant's transcendental idealism may have influenced Emerson. Transcendentalist idealism gave consciousness, rational principles, and human values the status of omnipotent governing powers.  Transcendentalism influenced American literature and art by promoting a connection with nature and personal spirituality. 

I am not done we can just hold it for tomorrow because I have to go work out now. I think for me much like other movements I like this or was drawn to this "era" (for lack of the better word) because of the innate need to believe in goodness. I really want to believe people are good. 

"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. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his deadly food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of the real sorrows. - Emerson

Sorry if this blog was weird and kinda emotional (?)