 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 2004 - 274 pages
...trust religious traditions and institutions. Emerson famously presents his mystic vision in Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."19 This vision gives Emerson confidence that when he relies on himself... | |
 | Daniel J. Philippon - 2004 - 402 pages
...Science 5 (1894): 783, and Academy 47 (1895): 503. 51. Compare Emerson's famous passage in Nature (1836): "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; 1 am part or parcel of God" (39). 52. See also Wyatt 45. 53. I disagree, therefore, with Oravec's belief... | |
 | Brady Harrison - 2004 - 260 pages
...greater being. As Emerson puts it in that most famous passage in American letters, the self becomes "a transparent eye-ball": "I am nothing; I see all;...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." But where Emerson experiences a vanishing of mean egotism, where he... | |
 | Mark Sedgwick - 2004 - 384 pages
...the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God ... 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 parcel of God.58 Guenon would be altogether more pessimistic. These, then, were the origins... | |
 | Kevin Hart, Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2004 - 252 pages
...primacy." Le Pas au-delà (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), 124-25. 8. Steven Shapiro quotes Emerson's "Nature": "All mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." He adds, "The narcissistic integrity of the ego is less important than the purity of sight itself."... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 pages
...Emerson in his most famous prose piece, "Nature," had averred that "standing on the bare ground . . . and uplifted into infinite space,— all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." Later in the same essay he reported, "I expand and live in the warm day, like corn and melons." Cranch... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 pages
...observer spiritual enlightenment and a pathway to the deity. As Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...quasi-pantheistic notion of an "Over-Soul" (divine spirit) of which humanity is but an extension or projection: "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it... | |
 | Jonathan Haidt - 2006 - 332 pages
...woods is a way of knowing and worshiping God. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a founder of the movement, wrote: Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; 1 am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental; to be... | |
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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... 
