 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
 | G. W. Kimura - 2007 - 188 pages
...uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; 1 see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.3 The experience of transparency between self and nature is mystical, but the setting... | |
 | Patrick Harpur - 2007 - 394 pages
...one of living participation rather than one of domination: 'Standing on the bare ground', he wrote, 'the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.'22 This mystical view of Nature increasingly caught the popular mood. It became commonplace... | |
 | Neil W. Browne - 2007 - 248 pages
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 | Neil W. Browne - 2007 - 248 pages
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 | Christopher J. Windolph - 2007 - 213 pages
...nearly two hundred years after Religio Medici—but also some one-hundred forty after the Opticks—that "I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me" (CollW, 1:10), one must surely be speaking in anything but literal terms, right? In each age, one finds... | |
 | David Creighton - 2007 - 319 pages
...sky," Emerson became "a transparent eye -ball," ecstatic revelation ensuing:"I see all. The currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." It was Romanticism in American form, the imagination lifted above reason as a gift from the gods. Kerouac... | |
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