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John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life. - John O'Donohue
Morgan Harper Nichols and added
What's beautiful depends on who we are, what we've encountered, where we live, and when. Likewise, the art that opens us to the chaotic stream of reality-the art we find beautiful-changes with time and with us, as we evolve. Beauty, I'd come to think, doesn't have to have a physical form, and it certainly doesn't have to be something we agree on. B
... See morefrom Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
Debbie Foster and added
- It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience. It’s something that has to do with how humans react to the world and perceive the world. And it’s notoriously thought to be subjective, but it’s not entirely subjective. There’s a very rich history of art objects and music and what people ... See more
from Beauty as a Compass for Truth by On Being
Natalie Audelo and added
- In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Natalie Audelo and added
- We’re more interested in beauty as an emergent property. We want new ways of understanding beauty, and we’re increasingly rooting them in our ethics. We want to encourage the beauty found in the aliveness, or the kindness, or the gentleness of what we do as landscape makers. How things look, in this view, is slightly less important.
from The Frontier Interview—Terremoto by Brian Sholis
Steyn Viljoen added
- Experientially, received within one’s own quiet subjectivity, it appears as an allusive aliveness, a meaning presenting itself in “glimpses and visions,” a foretaste or reminder of a higher order of being to which the human heart actually belongs and to and from which it responds, with infinite tug. The imaginal nudges us, beacons us, corrects us a... See more
from Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
Stuart Evans and added
- “What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation.
When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its... See morefrom A quote from Beauty
@Lumi and added
- 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.
from Beauty by Andrew Sweeny
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