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 ;... Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...the transcendent elation of the revelatory forms of literature. "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." PROPHECY The art of prophecy should interest us primarily because it formed the historical inception... | |
| Rebecca Krinke - 2005 - 238 pages
...air, and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson here speaks of the tremendous regenerative power that nature holds... | |
| James A. Herrick - 2004 - 340 pages
...qualities traditionally attributed to God, such as omniscience and omnipresence. In Nature Emerson writes: "I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." For Emerson, truth comes not from a Revealed Word but rather from within the divine self. Malcolm Cowley... | |
| Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 pages
...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 parcel of God. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." Emerson unites traditional theistic... | |
| Jonathan Wright - 2005 - 300 pages
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| David Burak, Roger Gilbert - 2005 - 380 pages
...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 parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend then sounds foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to... | |
| John Herlihy - 2005 - 224 pages
...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 parcel of God." 10 As visionary organ of the senses as well as mediating symbol leading toward higher... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...passiveness" to the superincumbent spirit, the "occult relation between man and the vegetable," the creed "I am nothing — I see all — the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me — I am part and particle of God," [all of which] have been uttered often before . . . ; but here they are all-in-all,... | |
| Richard S. Gilbert - 2005 - 118 pages
...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 and parcel of God. Clarke, Emerson, and Channing wrote that the nineteenth-century feminist writer... | |
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