 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...  The United Presbyterian Magazine - Page 571848Full view - About this book
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 pages
...experience of God at his conversion: "When I stand on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space — all mean...circulate through me. I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental; to be brothers, to be acquaintances,... | |
 | Leland S. Person - 2007 - 128 pages
...me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. (Nature, 10) Emerson posits the possibility of perfect vision that renders the world transparent so... | |
 | Philip F. Gura - 2007 - 406 pages
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 | Kendall Johnson - 2007 - 0 pages
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 | Ed Poole - 2007 - 292 pages
...me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism...the universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God. Eric wrote his own message: "Take deep breaths, and GET DIRTY] Hope you find some... | |
 | Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 pages
...I am glad to the brink of fear." This experience transports him: "Standing on the bare ground, ... all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Gripped by this mystical ecstasy, he finds particular realities— such as the "name of the nearest... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
..."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 eye-ball....circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 31 Tony Tanner, in speaking of this and similar passages expressing spontaneous ecstasy, suggests that... | |
 | Dave Saunders - 2007 - 252 pages
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 | Christopher Collins - 2010 - 300 pages
...force of all life. Emerson, in a famous phrase, had imagined himself closing an electrical circuit: "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God" (Nature, 21). These "floods of life stream around and through us" (ibid., 24). We experience... | |
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