 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...nature is a rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself."2 "From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us...aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." :) " Let us go for the universal; for the magnetism, not for the needles. Human life and its persons... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...nature is a rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself."2 "From within -or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all."3 "Let us go for the universal ; for the magnetism, not for the needles. Human life and its persons... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us...we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the fagade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.3 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us...we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the fa9ade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 pages
...they lie — an immensity not possessed, and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us...we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the fa9ade of a temple, wherein all wisdom and all good abide." We stand now at the centre of Emerson's... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 pages
...us. What, then, is this particular manner '{ " From within and from behind," to quote Emerson again, "a light shines through us upon things, and makes...aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." When does this happen ? How is it to be distinguished from our manner of operating as individuals ?... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 404 pages
...background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed, and which cannot be possessed. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and good abide. What we commonly call man — the eating, drinking, planting, counting man — does not,... | |
 | John Hoblyn Appleton, Archibald Henry Sayce - 1881 - 376 pages
...? 1 "St. Paul aud Protestantism," p. 73. " From within and from behind," to quote Emerson again, " a light shines through us upon things, and makes us...aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." When does this happen ? How is it to be distinguished from our manner of operating as individuals ?... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...they lie, — an immensity not possessed, and that can not be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things. and makes us aware that we are nothing, that the light is all."1 This " background of our being " was understood by Eckhart, who wrote of it... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...subject and the object, are one." " The simplest person who in his integrity worships God becomes God." " A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. The soul whose organ he is, breathing through his intellect, is genius — through his will, virtue... | |
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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. 
