 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
 | Katherine L. Morrison - 352 pages
...blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space." He writes: "I become a transparent eye-ball" and as "the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Nature, he says, "stretcheth out her arms to embrace man." Emerson claims that the "moral law lies... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...the Farm. More than Emerson, Thoreau was determined to achieve Emerson's ideal consciousness, where "all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." But consciousness was life; in this state one could sit gloriously on a stump all day. "To be awake... | |
 | Richard H. Axsom, Ellsworth Kelly - 2005 - 136 pages
...space," Emerson communed with nature: "All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; l am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; l am part or particle of God."' Kelly's plant lithographs, in the spirit in which they were created... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 930 pages
...eyeball" passage ftom its fitst chaptet: "Standing on the bate gtound, - my head bathed by the blithe ait, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a ttanspatent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the cuttents of the Univetsal Being citculate thtough... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 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. It is no wonder that Emerson had to leave his chamber metaphorically and physically to truly connect... | |
 | Roger S. Gottlieb - 2006 - 685 pages
...pure perception comes from Emerson: "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" (6). That image has been repeated by other writers. In reflecting on his consciousness during a hunt,... | |
 | 2006 - 364 pages
..."ecstasy" which he records thus in his Nature-. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Now this is a moment of "conversion" when one feels completely merged with the outside world, when... | |
 | Jay Michaelson - 2007 - 272 pages
...the sake of heaven. As Emerson wrote: Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.5 14 The Five Senses The heart hears. Although technically we hear through our ears, the process... | |
 | Petra Halkes - 2006 - 201 pages
...a 'transparent eye-ball.' Emerson wrote: 'Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean...the Universal being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God.' (in Rosenblum 1975: 22). 4 The Romantic symbol's seducing promise of the end of... | |
 | Carl Rollyson - 2006 - 301 pages
...the natural, Emerson wrote in "Nature": "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 parcel with God." Wright had the audacity to try this out in the heart of New York City, creating... | |
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