...the famous "transparent eyeball" passage from Emerson's Nature: "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, Addresses, and Lectures 10). Burroughs is characteristically playful in the allusion to Emerson,...

...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" (6). That image has been repeated by other writers. In reflecting on his consciousness during a hunt,...

...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 or particle of God.5 14 The Five Senses The heart hears. Although technically we hear through our ears, the process...

...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 parcel of God.' (in Rosenblum 1975: 22). 4 The Romantic symbol's seducing promise of the end of...

...bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, — all means of egotism vanish. . . . I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God.7 While poets, artists, and mystics give the clearest expression to such communion...

...wrote that when he was alone in nature, "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."21 Emerson's writings celebrated the potential that he believed every person has...

...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 with God." Wright had the audacity to try this out in the heart of New York City, creating...

...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. (Emerson, Nature 6) The single self, for Emerson, is the apotheosis of an all encompassing universal...

...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,...

...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...