 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
 | 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... | |
 | Katherine L. Morrison - 352 pages
...blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space." He writes: "I become a transparent eye-ball" and as "the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Nature, he says, "stretcheth out her arms to embrace man." Emerson claims that the "moral law lies... | |
 | Hugh Honour, John Fleming - 2005 - 996 pages
...air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egoism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; 1 am part and parcel of God.' This Oil on canvas, 5ft 11 ins x 10ft (1.83 x 3.05m). National Museum... | |
 | Richard H. Axsom, Ellsworth Kelly - 2005 - 136 pages
...space," Emerson communed with nature: "All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; l am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; l am part or particle of God."' Kelly's plant lithographs, in the spirit in which they were created... | |
 | Jonathan Haidt - 2006 - 332 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; 1 am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental; to be... | |
 | Anahita Teymourian-Pesch - 2006 - 288 pages
...experience":192 In the woods, we return to reason and faith. [...] I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate trough me; I am part or parcel of God. [...] To be brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant,... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 280 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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God" (Essays, 10). For all its implications, the passage needs to be appreciated for its spiritual geography.... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 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. It is no wonder that Emerson had to leave his chamber metaphorically and physically to truly connect... | |
 | 2006 - 364 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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. " Comprehension : From which work is this passage taken? Tell your comprehension of it. 3. "There was,... | |
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