“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Emerson's "I am a transparent eye-ball" has been one of my favorite lines and passages from his essays, and indeed from all of world literature, for so very long. Thank you for bringing it to mind this morning.
I love what you’ve been posting lately. It’s interesting to see the evolution of what is speaking to you as an artist shine through what you send out to us. It seems you’ve transitioned from a very angsty realist view of the world to something far more esoteric, optimistic, and a bit magical. Everything I’ve read here lately puts a smile on my face, even if I’m sitting at a Las Vegas casino bar ruminating about life.
Thank you! I still ricochet between both, but yeah, I figured I'd bring a little more light for the new year upon us. Though I did post that cranky German philosopher, Schopenhauer, the other day. ;)
Emerson is timeless and ageless. His writings awakened my 18 year old mind more than 40 years ago to become the mystic I am today. Thank you for keeping his words alive.
"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…" ... This part took on so many different meanings for me since I first encountered it 2 decades ago. At this point I'm inclined to say that he says too much here, but still lovely.
In my book on Hegel and the American Revolution I will develop the idea that the best Hegelian poets blossomed in America. The St Louis Hegelians and the Ohio Hegelians epitomize the American response to Hegel, but of course Emerson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Alan Poe, Melville, were all part of this and their influence (and Hegel's) on America, eternal
Emerson's "I am a transparent eye-ball" has been one of my favorite lines and passages from his essays, and indeed from all of world literature, for so very long. Thank you for bringing it to mind this morning.
I love what you’ve been posting lately. It’s interesting to see the evolution of what is speaking to you as an artist shine through what you send out to us. It seems you’ve transitioned from a very angsty realist view of the world to something far more esoteric, optimistic, and a bit magical. Everything I’ve read here lately puts a smile on my face, even if I’m sitting at a Las Vegas casino bar ruminating about life.
Thank you! I still ricochet between both, but yeah, I figured I'd bring a little more light for the new year upon us. Though I did post that cranky German philosopher, Schopenhauer, the other day. ;)
Yes, I think ricochet is a good way to describe the roller coaster that lives inside an artists head lol
Emerson is timeless and ageless. His writings awakened my 18 year old mind more than 40 years ago to become the mystic I am today. Thank you for keeping his words alive.
I always thought this quote was Emerson. I think it's paraphrased in Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer".
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Where is our Emerson for this age? Thank goddess we have his inspired writing!
"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…" ... This part took on so many different meanings for me since I first encountered it 2 decades ago. At this point I'm inclined to say that he says too much here, but still lovely.
Thank you
In my book on Hegel and the American Revolution I will develop the idea that the best Hegelian poets blossomed in America. The St Louis Hegelians and the Ohio Hegelians epitomize the American response to Hegel, but of course Emerson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Alan Poe, Melville, were all part of this and their influence (and Hegel's) on America, eternal
This is fantastic.