 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 292 pages
...soul to the absolute is discerned. " 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." Compare, too, that remarkable rhapsody in Thoreau's " Week " : " Suddenly old... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 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 j me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the y nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental... | |
 | Josiah Morse - 1906 - 284 pages
...which change and pass." So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature: "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," 2 etc. With Plotinus and the other mystics, he teaches the doctrine of passive reception. "I desire,... | |
 | Josiah Morse - 1906 - 284 pages
...which change and pass." So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God,"2 etc. With Plotinus and the other mystics, he teaches the doctrine of passive reception. " I... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...individual soul with the absolute is felt. "All mean egotism vanishes, f 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." The existence and attributes of God are not deducible from history or from natural... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 pages
..." Ladies and gentlemen " — thought, in a sentence, more definite than that marked by a semicolon. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. EMERSON : Nature, Mahomet was only fourteen ; had no language but his own : much in Syria must have... | |
 | Ernest Albert Baker - 1908 - 316 pages
...air, and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through...particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds there foreign and accidental ; to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle... | |
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