 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 156 pages
...than saying what we think, we quote "some saint or sage." But all things exist in the eternal now: "These roses under my window make no reference to...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." We do not live in the present ourselves, but, "with reverted eye," lament the past or, heedless of... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...one's self) from the past that Stein apparently didn't know she was echoing Emerson's "SelfReliance": "These roses under my window make no reference to...roses or to better ones; they are for what they are. There is simply the rose." The American, by which I specifically mean the Emersonian, genius, of which... | |
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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. 
