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
 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 255 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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 17 It is as if this passage is seminal to Johnson's corpus. In order to "see all," the self becomes... | |
 | Brady Harrison - 2004 - 238 pages
...puts it in that most famous passage in American letters, the self becomes "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." But where Emerson experiences a vanishing of mean egotism, where he finds a higher ethic or a better... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 252 pages
...Emersonian feat expressed in Nature, in which "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" (£, 10). In the poem's sister catalogue, section 9, the listed imperatives reveal the... | |
 | Mark Sedgwick - 2004 - 384 pages
...the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God ... 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.58 Guenon would be altogether more pessimistic. These, then, were the origins of Guenon's... | |
 | John Herlihy - 2005 - 185 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 or parcel of God.'9 The transparent eyeball becomes an expression to denote the experience of the miracle... | |
 | Daniel J. Philippon - 2004 - 373 pages
...(1895): 503. 51. Compare Emerson's famous passage in Nature (1836): "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" (39). 52. See also Wyatt 45. 53. I disagree, therefore, with Oravec's belief... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 392 pages
...all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. —NATURE Can you recall a mystical experience you have had? What did you leam from it? How did you... | |
 | Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 164 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.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009
...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." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of ideas... | |
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