More on Beauty

Somewhere between 551 and 491 BCE, Confucius observed the same thing that we might say today:

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

– Confucius

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Wisdom of Kahil Gibran

Here is another author that I read in high school; The Prophet was quite popular those days.

But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. 
– Kahil Gibran
Following beauty
Following beauty

May Hatred Be Transformed by Beauty

May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.

– Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher

What can bring more joy than a patch of golden poppies?
What can bring more joy than a patch of golden poppies?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

Patterns made by sphagnum moss
Patterns made by sphagnum moss

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. 
– Richard P. Feynman

Greeting the Morning, Come what May

There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown.

– Jessica Powers

Hail, morning sunrise!
Let us greet the dawn, come what may!

God’s Handwriting

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mushrooms as a wayside sacrament
Mushrooms as a wayside sacrament

More Wisdom of Heschel

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The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era.

– Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Wisdom of Heschel

The Wisdom of Heschel

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live.

– Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wisdom of George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

– George Bernard Shaw

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The Garden

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The Garden

I heard you blooming
in the sun’s crescendo,
your sepals stretching,
petals open
in an ecstasy of hue–
the overture of Eden.

– Nancy Compton Williams