Beauty
by Sarah Owen and · updated 14d ago
Beauty
by Sarah Owen and · updated 14d ago
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,
meghna added 5mo ago
Perhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.
meghna added 5mo ago
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
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if we embrace the beauty of all creation, we find our own beauty magnified. And what is shalom but dignity stretched out like a blanket over the cosmos?
meghna added 5mo ago
gabriel added 8mo ago
His obsession is imperfection. Imbalance.
andrea added 8mo ago
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