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Beauty of The World
“We have lost the feeling of the beauty of the world that we are looking for substitutes. Erich Hoffer said: “You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.” Meaning we rush around buying stuff, needing stuff, permanently needy, needing therapists, needing love, needing relationships, needing holidays, needing vacations, and you deserve it; says the ads, you deserve it because you’re miserable, you’re depressed….you can take medication against it….what we’ve lost is the beauty of the world and we make up for it with attempting to conquer the world or own the world, possess the world.
….So it’s that waking up to insanity of the way we’ve structured ourselves rather than doing something in the world to make a change, that’s the old style American way; let’s fix it; I’m not talking about fixing it, I’m talking about making a change in the mind that realizes — my god I’m crazy.
Once we reawaken our aesthetic sense…if we’re not anesthetized we would be able to see and appreciate the beauty in the world….love the world, not through Christian moralism about you mustlove the world or an economic one is sustainability for our own benefit… that is not it, it’s got to be something much more profound that touches the heart and it touches the heart if you realize that our job on the earth is to love it; to fall in love with it; not just to love it — you must love the world — but to fall…
