 Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 215by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
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...of Brahma, or world soul, which is identified with the individual soul, or atman. As Emerson says, "We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul." Insight into this oneness is the highest sort of wisdom that humans can aspire to, and it's intuitively... | |
 | Harry T. Hunt - 2003 - 382 pages
...which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. (Emerson, The Over-soul: 262) This is one of many allusions to Plotinus in the mature Emerson, in this... | |
 | Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - 312 pages
...which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.27 And the genius in particular is characterized by his access to this Over-soul: "The same Omniscience... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...His first statement is a declaration that the soul's power is accessible, a power framed and reframed ("the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object"). Then Emerson shifts in the next sentences to a pair of instructive illustrations, the first of which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. —THE OVER-SOUL Do you believe in a unity, an over-soul, within which all things exist 7 How would... | |
 | Linda Bearer Tuttle - 2005 - 220 pages
...which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.8 The very idea of a spiritual psychology rests on an acceptance of interrelated inner and outer... | |
 | Michael Daniels - 2005 - 382 pages
...which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. [italics added] (Wilber, 1995a, p. 284-285). In some endnotes, Wilber (1995a) attempts to explain why... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one" (E&L 386). In this unification, attended by a Wordsworthian "wise silence" and "deep power," Emerson... | |
 | Paul Guyer - 2005 - 386 pages
...which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.2" And the genius in particular is characterized by his access to this Oversoul: "The same Omniscience... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...resolve all difficulties between the human protagonist and the universe even before they occurred. "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one."23 Merely to contemplate the bravado of this statement is to sense the anxiety behind it. What... | |
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