 | 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
...attention!" It asks us to live mindfully. Even Emerson talked about this spiritual rule when he wrote, These roses under my window make 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;... | |
 | 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
...apologetic; he is no 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; 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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I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. 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. 
