or working all reveal divine joy His mysticism grows from this inner balance of body and soul Universal Self and Divine Unity Whitman feels that the same soul lives in all His I becomes the voice of everyone He says I celebrate myself and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you This shows that human and divine are one He finds God within himself and others The universe becomes a reflection of the soul His mysticism lies in seeing all life as one whole spirit Divine Presence in Nature Nature is holy in Whitman s poetry A leaf bird or wave holds spiritual truth He writes I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars This means that small and large things share the same divine power The smallest grain of sand holds the same glory as the sky His vision makes nature sacred Every breeze and blade of grass becomes a message from the eternal soul Immortality of the Soul Whitman believes that death is not the end He feels that the soul never dies He says The smallest sprout shows there is really no death Nature teaches him that life continues in new forms He adds All goes onward and outward nothing collapses And to die is different from what any one supposed and luckier Death becomes a door to new life His mysticism views death as a renewal and a source of peace Spirit lives on through every change Spiritual Freedom and Inner Journey Whitman teaches that each soul must seek truth alone No one can walk another s path He declares Not I not any one else can travel that road for you You must travel it for yourself This is his faith in spiritual freedom The inner journey leads one closer to God He believes that the soul can hear divine voices through silence love and nature True vision comes from inner courage and deep trust In short Whitman s Song of Myself shines with pure mysticism His faith joins man nature and God in harmony The divine appears through every human act and breath Death and life flow into one eternal rhythm His soul touches all things and finds unity everywhere He turns ordinary life into sacred experience His mystic vision is simple natural and full of love Through it he teaches that God lives within every living heart