Beauty

But beauty is not what you like. It fact it is often discovered in recoil. That is because it is difficult to contemplate, it is shocking.

What is called beauty in the digital age is actually porn—an instant gratification of the senses that erases intimacy.

Real beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.

And beauty is the antithesis of comfort. We crush Her with our false positivity, our fake smiles and affirmations. But beauty annihilates all that in an instant, like Rilke’s angel who is truly terrifying to behold.

we need to find the deeper meaning of the beautiful today—to become beautiful—not in innocence and immaturity, but in contemplation of mystery, in the shadows as much as the forms—not in nihilism or eternalism, nakedness or opacity, but in the the-in between.

Beauty has become an ugly little word. Because we’ve got it all wrong.We

We lack meaning because we lack beauty, even if we have an excess of experiences, ideas, and sensations.

In the world of fake beauty, it is alway summer: sunny, bright, and without shadows—a land of ones and zeros where everyone is sexy and in the flush of life, never tired, broken, or irritated.