On Beauty

[josephdc]

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Let's talk about Beauty.

For me, there is a spiritual side to beauty. Whenever I encounter a beautiful thing, for example, or an utterly beautiful person, I find myself lifted to cloud nine. Then, eventually, I would experience despair, because something inside me would long to grasp that beauty, would long to preserve it somehow, or better yet possess it! Yet, at the back of my mind I also know that it's wrong to possess beauty, that it in fact is never meant to be possessed.

On Beauty

Beauty
can either
drive you
mad
or liberate you

It will depend
on how you will
respond
every time you
see something
or someone
beautiful:

If you will seek
to possess it,
you will become
utterly miserable
and even mad,
but if you will see
it simply as a
gift from Above,
a reflection of God's
eternal beauty;
if you will exclaim in
your heart,
"Praise God!"
each time you
encounter
something
or someone beautiful,
or if you simply try
to appreciate it
and then finally
let go of it,
in the same way that
you let go of a
beautiful flower
when it begins to
wither in your hands,
or a beautiful song
when it begins to sound
predictable and stale
to you ears,
or a sparkling insight
when it ceases to
inspire you --
you will be freed,
and you will have a lighter
heart!

I'm reminded of Albert Camus' quote: "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a moment a glimpse of an eternity which we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

[Hellblazer 2.1]

i totally agree. so where are the beautiful women?

[josephdc]

^ They're everywhere!

I can compare beauty to an ocean. It's infinitely deep and awe-inspiring, and I feel like giving everything up for a chance to dive in to the depths of its essence and mystery. But I wouldn't.

[handsoff241]

ah! beauty, makes me cry, makes me happy and made me brave...
even the spirit is worth a thousand sighs of beauty! and mostly is the mind
the most beautiful thing i find in me is my mind, of which was not, i would desire to cease existing...

and i quote myself...

beauty is poison, it breaks my heart
beauty is wild, it pounded my mind
beauty is cursed, an awe to behold!
alas!
beauty is what i want
but never will
beauty is what i long
and longing still

weee nice thread



please this is not her...

[Sol_Itaire]

waaaa ka lawm sad ani inyung gipangsuwat diri oi. makahilak man sad ta.

[josephdc]

@ handsoff241: Nice!

[josephdc]

waaaa ka lawm sad ani inyung gipangsuwat diri oi. makahilak man sad ta.

Thank you Sol_Itaire for gracing us with your beauty.

[josephdc]

Beauty can haunt us, but it can also elevate us.

Ako ganahan nako buhaton kay for every beautiful thing nga ako'ng makit-an, every beautiful feeling nga ako'ng ma-feel, every beautiful person nga ako'ng ma-encounter, himuan nako og poem. To celebrate beauty and declare it to the whole world...

[nikxz unÖ]

Beauty, a indicative of a wholeness beyond these surmise making them extraneous for that depth of appreciation. The greater good, from which everything continual arises.

Beauty can be affair in vibes to seeing the villainy of the stars or a tiny crystal. All these are wonder arising from a greater universal lawful oneness that we can psychologically experience as beauty.

Elements of beauty are rightly attributed to reality, as in the instance of a painting and as in the instance of the stars, the wonders of the processes that brought them to their being.

Eliminate all the mental frills, reality is beautiful.

[handsoff241]

@hey ma'am sol_itaire look angelic in her ava.