Beauty
Sarah Owen and
Beauty
Sarah Owen and
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,
His obsession is imperfection. Imbalance.

“Some people are just nice to look at, but they’re not muses.”

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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