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" ... of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense... "
Essays: First series - Page 57
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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Coleridge and the Inspired Word

Anthony John Harding - 1985 - 208 pages
...good. There is simply more of Being in a virtuous thought or act than in a vicious thought or act. "We first share the life by which things exist, and...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...Umschreibung der Basis der "Self-Reliance" läßt sich ebenfalls in dieser Weise verstehen: The sense of being, which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...diverse from things, from space, from light, from man, but one with them, and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence their life and being also...
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Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry

James McCorkle - 1990 - 608 pages
...the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...is not diverse from things, from space, from light, 54 from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their...
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Freedom as Spiritual Activity

Edward Warren - 1994 - 102 pages
...the last fact, behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being, which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceedeth. We first share...
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James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master

Steven R. Carter - 1998 - 220 pages
...essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. . . . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...same source whence their life and being also proceed" (Selected Essays 158). Although Emerson was surely the chief inspiration for the basic ideas behind...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and ...

Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 pages
..."aboriginal Self." In the same essay, the famous "Self-Reliance," Emerson apostrophizes "the sense . . . which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul," of being "not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them,"...
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Sourcebook and Index : Documents that shaped the American Nation

Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 pages
...the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide

Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...same source whence their life and being also proceed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Final and perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of...
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