Explain in detail what Emerson is saying in this passage “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.” and align it with his other major ideas from Nature.

Near the beginning of Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson describes the fundamental encounter between the soul and its sense of the limitless quality of its surroundings: “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.” Explain in detail what Emerson is saying in this passage and align it with his other major ideas from Nature. Be sure to account for the apparently contradictory statements of nothingness and expansiveness in the last two sentences of the above quote.