 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
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 224 pages
...is whitewash . . . and heaven itself a decoy." Elsewhere he gives his estimate of himself, thus : " I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God." Can you make any sense of this ? Is there any sense in it ? It is a favorite theme... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887
...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 vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball^ .Lam .nothing ; I see all; the currents. o£ the Universal JBeing circulate through me ; I am part... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888
...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. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers, to be acquaintances,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888
...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;...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,—master... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888
...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,' &c. Angelus says, in virtue of his ideal sonship, — I am as great as God, and he as small as I ;... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 298 pages
...regarded by the wise, as not differing from, but as the same as themselves." Emerson puts it, — " I am nothing, I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me : I am part and parcel of God." Hegel's formula is — " Being and Thought are the same ;" and thus God is a process... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 140 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. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 140 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. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 304 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 egotism...circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign or accidental. To be brothers, to be acquaintances,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers, Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle - 1891 - 282 pages
...especially in the presence of nature, this contact of the individual soul with the absolute is felt. " All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...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... | |
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