The seventh movement from a cantata by Wally Kleucker, "The Seven
Principles" for narrator, soloist, mixed chorus and orchestra.
The seventh principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association is "Respect
for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."
The text of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) follows:
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing
can befall me in life
…which nature cannot repair. 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. ..I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty."
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