Widen your View

All I can is that there seems to be a vision possible to man, as from some more universal standpoint, free from the obscurity and localism which specially connect themselves with the passing clouds of desire, fear, and all ordinary thought and emotion; in that sense another and separate faculty...How can I express it?...for the sense that one is those objects and things and persons that one perceives - a sense in which sight and touch and hearing are all fused in identity. Nor can the matter be understood without realizing that the whole faculty is deeply and intimately rooted in the ultramoral and emotional nature and beyond the thought-region of the brain.

- Edward Carpenter, from Towards Democracy