beauty

"The beauty of careful sewing on a shirt is the patience it contains." - Rumi

"Where is beauty?

It is in a butterfly, but when we chloroform it, lay it out on the dissecting table, and cut it apart, beauty is gone.

Beauty is in a poem, but when we over-analyze the poem to find exactly what is beautiful about it, beauty disappears from that too.

Beauty is in a painting, but can we reduce it to quantitative measures of color and proportion, and then apply these to the standardized production of beauty?

No.

Beauty is a relationship, not an objective property, and the mass-production of generic relationships produces, necessarily, an aesthetic that is equally phony, generic, and cheap."
- Charles Eisenstein

Beauty is defined as:

The qualities that give pleasure to the senses.

An outstanding or conspicuous example of its variety.

One that is beautiful, a very attractive or seductive looking woman or man.

A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling.

The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.

"You never saw anybody dying, and you never saw anybody having a baby. How did you get to know things? "

"In the school I went to," Will said, "we never got to know things, we only got to know words."

The child looked up at him, shook her head and, lifting a small brown hand, significantly tapped her forehead.

"Crazy," Mary said. "Or were your teachers just stupid?"

Will laughed. "They were high-minded educators dedicated to mens sana in copore sano and the maintenance of our sublime Western Tradition. But meanwhile tell me something. Weren't you ever frightened?"

"By people having babies? "

"No, by people dying. Didn't that scare you?"

"Well, yes - it did," she said after a moment of silence.

"So what did you do about it? "

"I did what they teach you to do - tried to find out which part of me was frightened and why she was frightened."

"And which of you was it? "

"This one." Mary Sarojini pointed a forefinger into her open mouth. "The one that does all the talking. Little Miss Gibber - that's what Vijaya calls her. She's always talking about all the nasty things I remember, all the huge, wonderful, impossible things I imagine I can do. She's the one that gets frightened."

"Why is she frightened? "

"I suppose it's because she gets talking about all the awful things that might happen to her. Talking out loud or talking to herself. But there's another one who doesn't get frightened."

"Which one is that?"

"The one that doesn't talk - just looks and listens and feels what's going on inside. And sometimes," Mary Sarojini added, "sometimes she suddenly sees how beautiful everything is. No, that's wrong. She sees it all the time, but I don't - not unless she makes me notice it. That's when it suddenly happens. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"

- from Aldous Huxley Island

God's Creation is unbelievably beautiful! The complexity of the interaction of life and the beauty of that life - in and of itself - is so wondrous that any one who is willing to look needs no more - as humans, who have been given the grace of God to ‘see' and understand we have been commissioned to protect that life - as we were made in God's image as an extension of God in this physical world which we have named the Earth.

See Edmund Burke

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