| Once Emerson was asked, "How old are you?" and he said, "Three hundred and sixty years." The man who had asked could not believe it. He said, "This is too much; you must be kidding! Just tell me exactly how old you are." And Emerson said, "I have told it. But I can understand why you are puzzled. You are counting three hundred and sixty years according to the calendar. That is not my way of counting life. I am only sixty years old according to the calendar, but in sixty years I have lived six times more than you will be able to live in the same period of time. Looking at how much I have lived, I told you my age is three hundred and sixty years – three hundred and sixty years of life compressed into sixty years' time..." --Osho The Path of the Mystic, ch. 9 |
Emerson, Ralph
1803-1882 79 years
1803-1882 79 years
American essayist, poet, writer...
leader of the Transcendentalist movement in literature,
stressing simplicity, nature, etc...
born in Boston, Mass.
father was a Christian Unitarian minister
graduated from Harvard Univ.
had a reputation as a magnetic orator.
married 2x, children
died and buried in Mass.
leader of the Transcendentalist movement in literature,
stressing simplicity, nature, etc...
born in Boston, Mass.
father was a Christian Unitarian minister
graduated from Harvard Univ.
had a reputation as a magnetic orator.
married 2x, children
died and buried in Mass.
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