Beauty And The Spacious Mind

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“Beauty feeds the soul, wakens it, and brings it to life as nothing else can. Beauty is a deep-seated reaction to some meaningful and stunning presentation of life. It stops you and gives you an instant promise of pleasure. But if you have no soul, you won’t even see the beautiful in the thick layers of your practicality and in the density of your own ego. All your senses and your full imagination have to be alert when beauty makes its appearance. If you miss it, it is like going without food.” — Thomas Moore, Dark Nights of the Soul

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci

“We speak of the masculine and the feminine but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. — Victoria Erickson

Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and packages. Beauty is in nature, art, as well as behaviors and thoughts. I always have an eye out for beauty. I always appreciate someone pointing out a beauty I hadn’t noticed. And as Mr. Moore says, it feeds the soul.

Beauty is always given to us, but it’s up to us to notice, to stop and bask in it. You can create beauty yourself, out of your own means, whether your means are luxurious or meager. Beauty is like water. You…