 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
 | Robert Rehder, Patrick Vincent - 2006 - 252 pages
...divine current that circulates through him: Standing on the bare ground - a head bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism...currents of the universal being circulate through me. (Emerson, Nature 6) The single self, for Emerson, is the apotheosis of an all encompassing universal... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 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" (Essays, 10). For all its implications, the passage needs to be appreciated for its spiritual geography.... | |
 | Robert C. Fuller - 2009 - 200 pages
...scientism and biblical religion. It was Emerson who in 1836 wrote that when he was alone in nature, "all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God."21 Emerson's writings celebrated the potential that he believed every person has... | |
 | James Perrin Warren - 2010 - 282 pages
...describing it. In addition, Burroughs echoes the famous "transparent eyeball" passage from Emerson's Nature: "I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God" (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures 10). Burroughs is characteristically playful in the allusion to Emerson,... | |
 | Roger S. Gottlieb - 2006 - 304 pages
...off his years" and be forever a child. "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the current of the universal Being circulates through me: I am part or parcel of God."16 As traditional... | |
 | Anne Baker - 2006 - 194 pages
...CHAPTER FIVE Views from the £dge of Empire Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Few, if any, passages in the American Renaissance canon have been quoted... | |
 | Elizabeth Michael Boyle - 2006 - 164 pages
...head bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, — all means of egotism vanish. . . . I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God.7 While poets, artists, and mystics give the clearest expression to such communion... | |
 | Max Cavitch - 363 pages
...with the dead — are held in abeyance: 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. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances,... | |
 | 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... | |
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