Spiritual Independence

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."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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