...passiveness" to the superincumbent spirit, the "occult relation between man and the vegetable," the creed "I am nothing — I see all — the currents of the...Universal Being circulate through me — I am part and particle of God," [all of which] have been uttered often before . . . ; but here they are all-in-all,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

..."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...

...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...

...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...