 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 123by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Richo - 1991 - 148 pages
...horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific. — Herman Melville: Omoo 6. VALUES AND SELF-ESTEEM These roses under my window make no reference to former...roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ... tfiere is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.... | |
 | Hajime Nakamura - 1992 - 600 pages
...experience is liberating." (Ibid., p. 8) 30. In this connection a comment by Emerson seems apt: "These roses under my window make no reference to former...simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.—But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye... | |
 | Ken Wilber - 1993 - 396 pages
...living today, for he must also live tomorrow. In the words of Emerson (from "Self-reliance"): These roses under my window make no reference to former...they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones... | |
 | Harold J. Morowitz - 1993 - 239 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...better ones; they are for what they are; they exist for God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...fully and unapologetically in the now. He contrasts humans with the roses under his window. These roses make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...are for what they are; they exist with God today. . . . But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments... | |
 | William H. Houff - 1994 - 254 pages
...no reference to former roses or better ones; they are for what they are. . . . There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments... | |
 | Meena Alexander - 1996 - 236 pages
...He presents us with a bed of roses. We are asked to consider them, their moment by moment existence: "There is no time to them. There is simply the rose, it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . .[man] cannot be happy and strong, until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.'3 What... | |
 | Gordon C. F. Bearn - 1997 - 304 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. (ibid., p. 268) The irony of quoting Descartes in this call to avoid quoting, is doubled by the only... | |
 | John Broomfield - 1997 - 278 pages
...poets sing. The tree bears its thousand years as one large majestic moment. Rabindranath Tagore These roses under my window make no reference to former...they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - 1998 - 384 pages
...denial of transcendence. Consider an example. Emerson, in a famous passage in "Self-Reliance," asserts: "Those roses under my window make no reference to...There is no time to them. There is simply the rose." This seems a familiar Emersonian celebration of the divine immanence of nature. Considered substantively,... | |
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