 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 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 Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1899 - 402 pages
...imperfect, adore my own Perfect. I am receptive of the great soul. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the universal Being circulate through me. I am part of God"; and much more to the same effect. This is not the language of those who have travelled up... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...universe as the "externization of the soul." 1 But this is because he does not sharply sever God from Man. "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 2 "The soul in man ... is not the intellect or the will, but . . . the background of our being, in... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...as the "externization of the soul.".1' But this is because he does not sharply sever God from Man. "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."2 "The soul in man ... is not the intellect or the will, but . . . the background of our being,... | |
 | William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 650 pages
...uplifted into the 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 parcel of God." Such abstractions were common in The Dial, and against such did the hard-headed Scotchman... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 508 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 and particle of God." In the autumn in which the book was issued, Emerson and Ripley, with two others,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1903 - 164 pages
...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 sounds then...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance." This abstraction and aloofness of mind, if its powers are once turned toward human things, gives extreme... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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 sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1903 - 164 pages
...-iVature, where he says of himself: "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 parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to... | |
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