Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Nature · 1836
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.