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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 ;... "
Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pages
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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman

Max Cavitch - 352 pages
...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...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. (Essays, 10) Such moments are precarious because in his desire to achieve a vision of transcendence,...
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American Transcendentalism: A History

Philip F. Gura - 2007 - 406 pages
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Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...oneness with maternal nature, with the source of all life, with divinity itself. As Emerson puts it: "I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 68 The process that results in this kind of renewal and rebirth is a cyclic one. Society must strive...
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Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount ...

Blanche M. G. Linden - 2007 - 420 pages
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The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leland S. Person - 2007 - 128 pages
...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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. (Nature, 10) Emerson posits the possibility of perfect vision that renders the world transparent so...
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From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority

Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 pages
...him: "Standing on the bare ground, ... all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Gripped by this mystical ecstasy, he finds particular realities— such as the "name of the nearest...
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A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical ...

Catherine L. Albanese - 2007 - 640 pages
...infinite space," he saw the end to all "mean egotism." "I become a transparent eye-ball," he testified. "I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."137 This was well enough, but the announcement that followed brought would-be mystics back in...
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Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture

Christopher Collins - 2010 - 300 pages
...famous phrase, had imagined himself closing an electrical circuit: "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" (Nature, 21). These "floods of life stream around and through us" (ibid., 24). We experience...
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Henry James and the Visual

Kendall Johnson - 2007 - 0 pages
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Lessons from the Crossroads: Finding My Authentic Path

Ed Poole - 2007 - 292 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 and particle of God. Eric wrote his own message: "Take deep breaths, and GET DIRTY] Hope you find some...
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