Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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 ;... "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 12
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
Full view - About this book

The Goodly Word: The Puritan Influence in American Literature from Jonathan ...

Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...the transcendent elation of the revelatory forms of literature. "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." PROPHECY The art of prophecy should interest us primarily because it formed the historical inception...
Limited preview - About this book

The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on Nature

Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 234 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball, I am nothing; I see all, the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...
Limited preview - About this book

Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform

Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings, an amoral...
Limited preview - About this book

Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of ideas...
Limited preview - About this book

Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

Rebecca Krinke - 2005 - 238 pages
...air, and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson here speaks of the tremendous regenerative power that nature holds...
Limited preview - About this book

The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious ...

James A. Herrick - 2004 - 340 pages
...qualities traditionally attributed to God, such as omniscience and omnipresence. In Nature Emerson writes: "I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." For Emerson, truth comes not from a Revealed Word but rather from within the divine self. Malcolm Cowley...
Limited preview - About this book

Borderlands of the Spirit: Reflections on a Sacred Science of Mind

John Herlihy - 2005 - 224 pages
...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 or parcel of God." 10 As visionary organ of the senses as well as mediating symbol leading toward higher...
Limited preview - About this book

Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons

David Burak, Roger Gilbert - 2005 - 380 pages
...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 or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend then sounds foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to...
Limited preview - About this book

Everyday Philosophy: Practical Applications

Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 pages
...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 or parcel of God. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." Emerson unites traditional theistic...
Limited preview - About this book

Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...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,...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF