...comes to whoever will put off what is foreign and proud; it comes as serenity and grandeur. Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal...and particle is equally related; the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue;...

...and made one with all other." We live divided, partial, and piecemeal lives. Yet within each of us is "the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal...and particle is equally related; the eternal One." Emerson's notion is very much like the Hindu conception of Brahma, or world soul, which is identified...

...OverSoul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. . . . We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles....within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence . . . to which every part and particle is related; the eternal ONE. . . .» And now, speaking specifically...

...the all-pervading Spirit, was regarded by Emerson as selfsufficient for the contemplation of truth: "Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence...." ("The OverSoul," SE: 207) (cf. II. 4. 2, 337). He liked to emphasize that man has access to the whole truth...

...thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty-. We live m succession, m division, m parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul...whole: the wise silence: the universal beauty, to which everv part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist...

...pursues a metaphysical variant on nineteenth-century philosophic holism (as in Hegel, Bradley, or Green): "the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which...part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE."28 Here the stress falls on the a priori and objective, as though the whole of our lives has already...

...made whole with all other; that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is the worship. . . . Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;...and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. . . . We see this world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole,...

...as a refutation of Emerson's belief in the unity of perception. Emerson writes in "The Over-Soul": [M]an is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;...whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficient and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the...

...harmony and unity in life. "We live in succession," he states, "in division, in parts, in particular. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the...and particle is equally related; the eternal One." By accessing the power of the Over-Soul (unconscious), the binary disjunction of subjectobject that...

...fearlessness, immortality, connectedness, unconditional love and bliss." 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal...and particle is equally related; the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breaks through our will, it is virtue;...