I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. One product of Emerson's conviction that we can find God directly in nature was a profound optimism. God is good, and God works through nature.
Death is simply a part of the cycle of life.
To the extent that we are seperated from a direct, intuitive knowledge of God, we are capable of evil. Emerson's optimism stuck a sympathetic chord with audiences that might have had difficulty with the more complex aspects of his thought. Your condition today, he seemed to tell his readers and listeners, may be mean, dull, and routine, but it need not be. All we need do is doscover the god with each of us, he suggested, adn our lives will partake of the grandeur of the universe. This is all I feel like explaining for now.