 | 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
...longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...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
...the 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
...transcendence. Consider an example. Emerson, in a famous passage in "Self-Reliance," asserts: "Those roses under my window make no reference to former...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,... | |
 | Ken Wilber - 1998 - 212 pages
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 | Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 pages
...made the same point when he observed in "Self-Reliance" that "there are roses under my window that make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...are for what they are; they exist with God to-day" (EL, p. 270). '1 To see things as they are, and not merely to observe what is anticipated or remembered,... | |
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...timidity and apology ("he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage"), Emerson says: These roses under my window make no reference to former...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. He goes on: But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present. . . . He cannot be happy... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...speaking and seeing, listening and walking, standing still and lying down. — Ten Rungs: Hasidzc Sayings 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... | |
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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. 
