 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...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...Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God." The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1903 - 164 pages
...occurs so early in the first one, his philosophic abridgment called -iVature, where he says of himself: "All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to... | |
 | 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;...Universal 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Josiah Morse - 1906 - 284 pages
...the fair accidents and effects which change and pass." So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God," 2 etc. With Plotinus and the other mystics, he teaches the doctrine of passive reception. "I desire,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 pages
...my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. 1 become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see...Universal Being circulate through ' me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds 4hen foreign and accidental : to be brothers,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...nature, this contact of the individual soul with the absolute is felt. "All mean egotism vanishes, f become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God." The existence and attributes of God are not deducible from history or from natural... | |
 | John Ernest Phythian - 1907 - 412 pages
...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." Emerson here expresses his feeling of what Matthew Arnold called " Nature's healing power". I have... | |
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