"The self is no mystery, the mystery is
That there is something for us to stand on."
-- George Oppen from "World, World--"
"We return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing 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 the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite spaces, - 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."
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson