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Open My Eyes, That I May See, 1895 Clara H. Scott (December 3, 1841 – June 21, 1897 [ 1 ] ), née Fiske, was an American composer , hymnwriter and publisher . [ 2 ] She was the first woman to publish a volume of anthems, the Royal Anthem Book , in 1882. [ 3 ]
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. [1] [2] According to Emerson, for most people, seeing is a ...
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
Psalm 119:18 inspired the hymn Open My Eyes, That I May See by Clara H. Scott. [35] Psalm 119:33–38 was set to music by William Byrd as Teach Me, O Lord. Psalm 119:57–64 was set to music by Robert White (composer) as Portio mea Domine. Psalm 119:89 is a popular Nigerian praise song.
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
By lamp, this verse may mean that the eye is a metaphorical window by which light enters the body. Alternatively the lamp might not be meant as a source of light, but rather as a guide through darkness, just as the eye is a guide through life. In this case the verse is almost certainly speaking of a spiritual eye rather than the literal organ.
By the eye we must understand our most cherished friend, as they are wont to say who would express ardent affection, ‘I love him as my own eye.’ And a friend too who gives counsel, as the eye shows us our way. The right eye, perhaps, only means to express a higher degree of affection, for it is the one which men most fear to lose.
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.