Beguiled by Beauty
The glimpse, the touch of beauty is enough to quicken our hearts with the longing for the divine.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being: On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious (Veritas Book 30)
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Following this, the author identifies four properties of beauty: first, beauty is sacred, it belongs to the realm of divinity, of goodness, of our quest for perfection; second, beauty is unprecedented, in the sense that it is a novel experience for the subject; thirdly, beauty is life-saving; and finally, beauty incites deliberation.