Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

More like a visitation than a solid fact, beauty invests the aura of a person or infuses a landscape with an unexpected intimacy that satisfies our longing. True beauty cannot be invented or manufactured. We ‘cannot bear very much reality’. Neither, it seems, can we bear very much beauty.

Because our present habit of mind is governed by the calculus of consumerism and busyness, we are less and less frequently available to the exuberance of beauty.

The glimpse, the touch of beauty is enough to quicken our hearts with the longing for the divine.

In the experience of beauty we awaken and surrender in the same act.

When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary.

When we lose sight of beauty our struggle becomes tired and functional. When we expect and engage the Beautiful, a new fluency is set free within us and between us.

EVERY LIFE IS BRAIDED WITH LUMINOUS MOMENTS.

Only if there is beauty in us can we recognize beauty elsewhere: beauty knows beauty.

The search for truth is allied with the visitation of beauty.