 ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 26by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Mason Barrows - Mental healing - 1887 - 262 pages
...influx from Deity. We learn that God is, that he is in us, and that all things are shadows of him. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps in our efforts to realize them. When we have broken with our god of tradition, and ceased from our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 402 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple, and... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - Mysticism - 1888 - 404 pages
...lies, Folded in favour on the sultan's breast. Needs not the letter or the messenger. So Emerson, — ' The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, then old things pass away, — means, teachers,... | |
 | Theology - 1890 - 596 pages
...writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having," he says in his Essay on Experience. " It must be that when God speaketh He should communicate, not one thing, but all things," he says in his Essay on Self- Reliance. A long task, indeed, it would be to hunt out the number of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit ^.re so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps....that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one tiiing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light, nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one'thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light, nature,... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 234 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple, and... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - Liberty - 1899 - 280 pages
...independence of the Bible as well as of the Church. His innate reverence was expressed in such sayings as " The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to interpose helps." Love of spontaneity made him declare that " Creeds are a disease of the intellect."... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...roving ; — the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, 335 command my curiosity and respect. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...thing, but all things ; should fill the world with 340 his voice ; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the center of the present thought... | |
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