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" Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or... "
Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ... - Page 87
by Joseph Forster - 1890 - 140 pages
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 21

1837 - 424 pages
...thought not only unexplained but inexplicable, as language, sleep, dreams, beasts, sex." — p. 7. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...air, — and uplifted into infinite space, — all egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." — p. 13. " Whilst we use this grand cipher to...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am no thing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is...eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes....
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which...Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball....
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which...the Universal Being circulate through me* I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...
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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 15

1850 - 424 pages
...Mr. Emerson defines his own position more exactly in the following precise and philosophical terms. " Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God." Mr. Emerson would apparently be glad to be considered an eclectic. He displays...
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Infidelity: Its Aspects, Causes and Agencies ...

Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 640 pages
...character until seen with the shore or the ship." Man is at once the worshipper and the object of worship. "Standing on the bare" ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. — The \ currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Prayer,...
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