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" 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 ; I am part or... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Metropolitan Pulpit, Volume 35

1898 - 588 pages
...observation and experience of, practically, the entire world, including himself. Emerson writes : " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part and particle of God. " This is transcendentalism at least. It looks much like that skeptical Pantheism...
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Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the ...

William Ralph Inge - 1899 - 442 pages
...mystics of the Middle Ages. " I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect. I am receptive of the great soul. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...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...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use 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...
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Modern Culture, Volume 13

William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 650 pages
...mentioned: "Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed in the blithe air, and uplifted into the infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...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 vigorously...
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The Snow Image and Other Twice-told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 508 pages
...quiet text, " on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...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,...
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Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...repair. 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...circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. 1 The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers, to be acquaintances,...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...repair. 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...Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God.1 The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers, to be acquaintances,...
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Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 532 pages
...on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, — ajl mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball;...circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. 1 The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers, to be acquaintances,...
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Points at Issue and Some Other Points

Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 280 pages
...especially in the presence of nature, this relation of the individual soul to the absolute is discerned. " All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and particle of God." Compare, too, that remarkable rhapsody in Thoreau's " Week " : " Suddenly old...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits. Conduct of life. Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 pages
...repair. 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...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...
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