Wednesday, September 26, 2007

What is Beautiful?

All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.
The willingness to bear witness to this radiance is what allows us to perceive beauty in anything.

It's possible to look at a garbage can, filled with banana peels, coffee grains, egg shells, maggots, used paper towel, mouldy leftovers from the back of the fridge, baby diapers, and a fish carcass, and still see the beauty radiating forth.

Certainly it may not have the aesthetic qualities that make it worthy of becoming a painting for the wall... but it IS beautiful. It is beautiful because it is the perfect expression of that which it is.
A rosebud is not an imperfect rose. It is a perfect rosebud. Neither is more beautiful in its essence...because the essence of all which is real is Truth!

Beauty, in a sociological sense, is simply that which we least object to. Objectively speaking, it is the reward for transcending our objections.

-Rob

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