Beauty
No matter the beauty perceived in your appearance,
know that the loveliest aspect of you
is found in your heart,
your spirit.
Some say these beauties cannot be seen,
cannot be photographed or painted,
but you wear this beauty on your physical being
the way a diaphonous veil drapes from a rounded breast,
clings along a [...]
When I choose to live in my fear, my anger, my hate
I see the world through eyes that fear
I hear the song of anger in every note
I taste hatred as if all sustenance were the bitterest root
In my mind
I place the world of power, control and duplicity
Above the world of beauty, compassion and love
So that [...]
It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation
And our will to reason about all we perceive
That we learn to believe in opposites.
Beauty & Ugliness
Love & Hatred
Good & Evil
Only words.
Only names for the unnameable.
The concepts they speak of,
Only manifestations of the eternally real.
By believing these words speak the final truth
We make their manifestations real.
We [...]
It has been said:
There’s always a little truth behind every “Just kidding”;
A little knowledge behind every: “I don’t know”;
A little emotion behind every: “I don’t care” and
A little pain behind every “It’s okay.”
This is true. Often, there is rather a lot. But it’s also true that,
There is always a little love in every smile;
A little [...]
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
~ George Washington Carver
When Lao Tse speaks of The Dao, he is referring literally to “The Way”. There’s no simple way to tell you what “The Way” is. Lao Tse wrote [...]
Continue reading about The Way ~ when Nature plays its lovely hand
There’s a beauty that never fades, endures all time
There’s a divinity that pervades all beings, all things
There’s a grace that characterises all movement, all art
That divine, beautiful grace . . .
. . . is Love.
Peter, et. al.
I thought we could expand on our Divine Synonyms by listing synonyms for them. It’s proving to be more difficult than I’d expected…
God : Transcendance – the connectedness of all creation within which we all exist, can experience, can become consciously connected to, can become a giving part of.
synonyms : enlightened, eternal, transcendent, divine, [...]
Staci…
Why have you never brought up Helprin before? The passage you quote in Delusions. . . is scrumptious. Should I begin with Winter’s Tale ? Or Soldier ?
A couple things about categorisation… You’ve categorised that post in both Beauty and Perfection . I think as far as the sub-categories go, we should pick one. I [...]
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Here’s something for "Perfection ", Peter. It’s a superbly spiritual passage from Mark Helprin, a writer whose fiction I love, though whose politics I loathe. Life hands out challenges like that, doesn’t it? Beauty is found in the most unusual places. Had I known his politics before having read most of his books, I [...]
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