Transcendentalism Today

Imagine sitting in the audience at a lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Or stopping by Walden Pond for a visit with Henry David Thoreau. Or walking the streets of New York City with Walt Whitman. American Mindfulness Seminar can take you there.

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American Mindfulness Remote

Online class and forum introducing the history, texts, and practices of American Mindfulness.

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East-West Workshop

In-person program centered around group study and discussion, meditation, and creative practice.

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Walt Whitman

“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. This is the thought of identity...”

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Henry David Thoreau

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

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Amos Bronson Alcott

“. . . become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities.”