...volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Freshness of Poetic Perception by Paul Hamilton Hayne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 7, 2012. Paul Hamilton Hayne was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He left his law practice to persue his literary interests. He became a lit...

...f the universe that changes to match the changes in our inner properties. Our perception of the world changes only with the inner changes in us. But... ... a different physical dimension, but simply add the collective picture to our perception of this world. We begin to understand the reasons and the c... ...s the attaining individual who gives names to the Creator accord- ing to one’s perception of Him: “Kind,” “Merciful,” “Mighty,” “Fearful,” and so on.... ...f all pleasures. Q: How do you differentiate between “good” and “evil”? A: Our perception of good and evil is very different from how they are percei... ... means that the spiritual world also has its limitations in understanding and perception of the universe. But when Kabbalists reach a certain level,... ..., and even ignore our egoism altogether in our attitudes to others. With this perception, we can feel the Creator as much as we can feel others inst... ...the Creator's Essence, vessels, and Lights. The receivers have no thought and perception of the Essence of the Creator. There are always two contrad... ... with each corporeal organ having a spiritual counter- part. According to that perception, if a person makes a physical gesture, any physical gesture... ...s, the same birds, and the same trees. But our consciousness will change! Our perception of the world around us will change because we will be diffe...

...ds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. The structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. But the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. It is about you, about me, about all of us...

...t of heaven from our God,” if we should be judged worthy. And this I say, with the full perception of the capital and fundamental points on which we... ... human heart. Yet while I believe and assert that there is in the conscience no natural perception of the true character of sin, as an original and ...

...ightway flowered in it, would be worthy of high com- memoration; Densher’s perception went out to meet the young woman’s and quite kept pace with her ... ...arm was the greatest—as if to work off, for her own relief, her con- stant perception of the incongruity of things. She had seen the general show too ... ...ot too often; and then she was there in force. Then she both warmed to the perception that met her own perception, and disputed it, suspiciously, as t... ...red Maud, florid, alien, exotic—which had been just the spell— even to the perceptions of youth. There was the danger— she frankly touched it—that suc... ...uldn’t at this mo- ment for instance have said whether, with her quickened perceptions, she were more enlivened or oppressed; and the case might in fa... ... none other at hand. She presently, it is true, enriched her idea with the perception that her interlocutor was indif- ferent; yet this, indifferent a... ...es trinsically remarkable—such moments in especial deter- mined for Kate a perception of the high happiness of her companion’s liberty. Milly’s range ... ...ld apprehend— she could always apprehend—from pity; and the result of that perception, for the girl, was singular: it proved to her as quickly that Ka... ...l now made her—what was it in short but Byzan- tine? The vision of Milly’s perception of the propriety of the matter had, at any rate, quickly engulfe...

...za- tion. What is meant by realization? It means knowledge based on direct perception. In India often the best teach- ers have no learning, but their ... ...is Self cannot be attained by study of the Scriptures, nor by intellectual perception, nor by frequent hearing (of It); He whom the Self chooses, by h... ...mean attaining true knowledge of it. Knowledge only comes through di- rect perception, and direct perception of God is possible for those alone who ar... ... They have described It as beyond mind and speech; too subtle for ordinary perception, but not beyond the range of purified vision. XVI The intelligen... ...s the teacher tries to make plain that all knowledge, as well as all sense perception, in every state of consciousness—sleeping, dreaming or waking—is... ...is pos- sible only because the Self exists. There can be no knowl- edge or perception independent of the Self. Wise men, aware of this, identify thems... ... invisible, however, cannot be ac- 42 The Upanishads quired through sense-perception. It can only be attained by the purified mind. XII The Purusha (... ... through the purifying practice of medi- tation. X When the five organs of perception become still, together with the mind, and the intellect ceases t... ...t scat- ters the physical, mental and intellectual forces; so the outgoing perceptions must be detached from the exter- nal world and indrawn. When th...

...ed that at the sight of the other lodger the child was seized with a finer perception of the drivable. He rushed at Baron with a flourish of the bridl... ...grading. The public mind!—as if the public HAD a mind, or any principle of perception more discov- erable than the stare of huddled sheep! Peter Baron... ... have defined) this circumstance suddenly constituted a danger. It was the perception of the danger, for instance, which caused to remain in abeyance ... ...mallest sense of honour, and she retorted that at any rate they have other perceptions more delicate than those of men. He admitted that the papers mi... ...at incited Mr. Locket to begin stuffing the papers into his bag. With this perception he came quickly closer and, laying his hand on the gaping recept... ...some grudging amends. This was a sign that he might go out; he had a vague perception that there were things to be done. He had work to look for, and ...

...r knowledge of them, which we are taught to build on this originally acute perception, is shattered when we hear, that it is exactly the same, in the ... ...rich colouring confessed to it. But she was very pleasing, and Elizabeth’s perception dwelt on it only because her father’s manly chivalry had defende... ...s with the aged woman, found himself used and treated. The accuracy of his perceptions might be questioned. He was like a man stunned by some great tr...

...ed by school, a kind of homebred sensibility which might have been as bad for himself but was charming for others, and a whole range of refine- ment a... ...me, if he had supposed his threat would do something towards bringing them round, he was disap- pointed to find them taking for granted—how vulgar the... ...re was fascination in talking them over with him, just as there would have been heartlessness in leaving him alone with them. Now that the pair had su...

... the Creator. Minds endowed by study with an inward sight, and whose quick perceptions bring before the soul, as though painted on a canvas, the contr... ...ep slopes which join the moun- tain to the valleys of the Sieg. Miraculous perception guided their course, or, to speak more properly, their flight. W... ...s knowledge; his inner being is only used to preserve his aptitude for the perception of external truths. The Angelic Spirit goes far beyond that; his... ...receive the prophetic afflation of Correspondences, it rouses within him a perception of the Word; he comprehends that the cre- ations are transformat... ...xperienced. It is perhaps sufficient,’ he goes on, ‘to have only a minimum perception of it to be forever changed, to long to enter Heaven and the sph... ...finite,— two worlds unknown to each other. Have the pebbles of the fiord a perception of their combined being? have they a con- sciousness of the colo... ...wer whose weakest side is known to you, but whose real import escapes your perception. Y ou have built yourself a hut in the Infinite of numbers, you ... ... it! Melody is heard and you echo it! Under such conditions, you feel your perceptions developing, widening; the eyes of your mind reach to vast dista... ...dge of the faculties of that Life; they could have only faint and confused perceptions of it, suited to their weakness. Were it not so, the thunder of...

... feeling. The girl had stuff in her—he saw it; and she seemed to catch the perception in his eyes. “That’s the kind of education I got at Mrs. Murrett... ...t without my dinner—and without my salary.” “Ah—” he groaned, with a sharp perception of all the sor- did dangers that might attend such a break with ... ... almost impossible for him to picture the state of persons with tastes and perceptions like his own, to whom an evening at the theatre was an unat- ta... ...rogressed he noticed that her immobility was traversed by swift flashes of perception. She was not missing anything, and her intensity of attention wh... ...eir usual deep reliance; but beneath the surface of her serenity his tense perceptions detected a hidden stir. He was sufficiently self-possessed to t... ...that which enfolded Darrow and his two companions seemed to his watch- ful perceptions to be quivering with cross-threads of commu- nication. At first... ...at him. “Y ou must have some special reason for saying so.” “Only my clear perception of the facts.” “What facts do you mean?” Darrow hesitated. “Y ou... ...the table with her hand. He saw that her doubt of him was allayed, and the perception made him more ashamed, as if her trust had first revealed to him... ...not that she said anything remark- able, or betrayed any of those unspoken perceptions which give significance to the most commonplace utterances. She...

... already for what he had done, how could one have liked him any more for a perception which must at the best have been vague? Paul Overt got up, tryin... ...ring of the answer when she announced that she must leave him, though this perception was of course provisional. While he was in the very act of placi... ... She mixes all things up, but there are none in regard to which she hasn’t perceptions. She sees things in a perspective—as if from the top of the Him...

... women judge one another by tokens that escape the obtuseness of masculine perceptions!” said Zenobia. “There is no proof which you would be likely to... ...g, or that afterwards grew more intimate between us,—no, nor my subsequent perception of his own great errors,—ever quite effaced. It is so rare, in t... ...inctured strongly with derision. It was a crisis in which his intellectual perceptions could not altogether help him out. He failed to comprehend, and... ...as Theodore’s nerves might be, and much as he prided himself on his sturdy perception of realities, I should not be surprised if his heart throbbed at... ...w Hollingsworth meant to dispose of these two hearts, which (plainly to my perception, and, as I could not but now suppose, to his) he had engrossed i... ... Priscilla, although dressed with a novel and fanciful elegance. The vague perception of it, as viewed so far off, impressed me as if she had suddenly... ...r; a cold blooded criticism, founded on a shallow in terpretation of half perceptions; a monstrous scepticism in regard to any conscience or any wisd...

...tured white face. But so clever were this young man’s quick sympathies and perceptions that he already learned that in these semi-mortuary manifestati... ... was in high good hu- mor; she had been very much pleased. With her lively perception and her refined imagination, she was capable of enjoying anythin... ...rson in the circle with no sense of oppression of any kind was, to Felix’s perception, Rob- ert Acton. It might perhaps have been feared that after th... ...t off, did n’t she?” Clifford added, in the tone of a young humorist whose perception had not been perma- nently clouded by the sense of his own disco... ...y through the window with an expression of face which seemed to denote the perception of rose- color even in the tints of a wet Sunday. His sister, fr... ...d failed to appre- ciate Madame M; auunster’s charms; on the contrary, her perception of the graces of manner and conversation of her brilliant visito... ...l plain yet refined politeness. It is to be supposed that by this time his perception of the mutual relations of the young people who surrounded him h...

...few materials of his character been put together that there was no painful perception of deficiency, but, on my part, an entire contentment with what ... ...nor, it gives me pleasure to reflect, did the truth, as it came home to my perception, ever cost me a pang, or require to be thrown off in a sigh. In ... ...nd write them down, and find the letters turn to gold upon the page. These perceptions had come too late. At the Instant, I was only conscious that wh... ...in little danger of forgetting it, was often brought before her vivid self perception, like a new anguish, by the rudest touch upon the tenderest spot... ...hrust itself into relation with him. But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intui tive; and when the minister threw his s... ...h a subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a kno... ...t indeed, in great part, by his sorrows. His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept... ...So vivid was the expres 125 Hawthorne sion, or so intense the minister’s perception of it, that it seemed still to remain painted on the darkness af... ...s, its fireplace, and the tapestried com fort of the walls, with the same perception of strangeness that had haunted him throughout his walk from the...

... he did not appear ridiculous to this intelligent young man, whose private perception of in- congruities he suspected of being keen. At the end of a q... ...teem as soon as he had looked at her. A brave little per- son, with lively perceptions, and yet a disbelief in her own talent for social, as distingui... ...ll; her part was to effect some gentle, gradual change in his intellectual perception of poor Morris’s character. But the means of effecting such a ch... ...in the house that tells me so. We doctors, you know, end by acquiring fine perceptions, and it is im- pressed upon my sensorium that he has sat in the... ...made himself comfortable, and he had never been caught. But even while her perception opened itself to this, she had no desire to catch him; his prese...

...so with an inky flood of surface water… . That indeed was my most striking perception in the growth of Bromstead. The Ravensbrook had been important t... ...estioned authority; and one comes at last to the vast world of one’s adult perception, pierced deep by flar- ing searchlights of partial understanding... ...ey seemed for him to think about! and all his woven thoughts lay across my perception of the realities of things, as flimsy and irrel- evant and cleve... ... from my circumstances. It did not at first connect itself at all with the perception of a planless disorder in human affairs that had been forced upo... ...rn conditions and modern ideas, and in particular the intenser and subtler perceptions of modern life, press more and more heavily upon a marriage tie... ...ased even to at- tempt to be sincere with myself. I would not admit my own perceptions and interpretations. I tried to fit myself to her thinner and f... ... of ur- gent industry, temperance, and close attention was indicated by my perception of these ends. I married Margaret and set to work. But something... ...and with those flashes of intuition, those startling, sudden delicacies of perception few men display. I liked, too, the relations that held between w... ...and down the scale between a belief in their far-sighted pur- pose and the perception of crude vanities, coarse ambitions, vulgar competitiveness, and...

...mechanical greatness took the place of mere black disorder in the bishop’s perception of his see. It was harsh, it was vast and strong, it was no lamb... ...rd real- 84 The Soul of a Bishop ization of his sash and gaiters, and his perception of them as encumbrances in his pursuit of God. But the setting a... ... from the first vision of God; before it had been spectacular, but now his perception was altogether super-sensuous. (And nevertheless and all the tim... ...hop. It was with a perplexed but powerless dissent that the ex- ternalized perceptions of the bishop witnessed his agreement with the rest of Lady Ell... ... certainty of sight and hearing. It is a persuasion, it falls far short of perception…. “We don’t know directly,” Scrope said to himself with a checki... ...time and sometimes to that, but never continuously to any, and because the perception of him depends upon the ability and quality of the perceiver, be...

...nths earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the De- cember dusk,... ...or thereupon proceeded to unfold his story. It threw, even to her confused perceptions, and imperfectly initiated vi- sion, a lurid glare on the whole... ...ide the last work on “Mendelism”; so that even to Mrs. Leveret’s fluttered perceptions it was clear that Mrs. Ballinger didn’t in the least know what ...

...au during the passage of the little troop had somewhat dimmed the driver’s perceptions, but he roused himself joyously when the innkeeper, having ques... ...ancine at revealing so much knowledge of life, and Marie 83 Balzac at the perception, which now came to her for the first time, of a future of happin... ...res, hopes, and passions which agitated them. Marie’s cleverness and quick perception (for she was fully on her guard) showed Madame du Gua that calum... ...nd the etiquette of aristocracy. If Marie generously granted intellect and perception to the latter, she also discerned in them a total absence of the... ... brilliant conver- sations which charmed my ear were marked by subtlety of perception and by witty contempt for all that was true and spiritual. Men l...

...nd bowed upon the announcement of his name, was caused by an instantaneous perception and refection that it would be prudent to keep her grand-daughte... ...but from the temporary base acquiescence; which is, with women, a terrible perception of the gulf of their unsat- isfied nature. The secretary, cheerf... ...ril of a too complete exercise of indepen- dence was just intimated to her perceptions. On whom the blame? And let the motively guilty go mourn over c... ...ovesick girl, consciously to escape the ominous thought, which her woman’s perception had sown in her, that he too chafed at a marriage no marriage: w... ...along. Is a woman of the plain wits common to numbers ever deceived in her perception of a man’s feelings for her? Let her first question herself whet...