#beauty

It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#god #joy #life #the-whole #unconditional-love

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. ↗

— Jess Walter

#right-and-wrong #beauty

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. "After all," sighed Narcissus the hunchback, "on me it looks good. The contemplation of his reflection does not turn Narcissus into Priapus: the spell in which he is trapped is not a desire for himself but the satisfaction of not desiring the nymphs. "I prefer my pistol to my p…," said Narcissus; "it cannot take aim without my permission" – and took a pot shot at Echo. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#beauty

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. ↗

— Paul Harding

#confusion #death #life #souls #tinkers

Travis was going to be a part of that, and if he wouldn’t let me save him, I had to save myself. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love #saving-yourself #smart-people #beauty

The flush on her pale cheeks was like the blush of sunset on snow. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#seema-tandon #beauty

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#soul #beauty

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#persephone #beauty

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death #grace #joy #life #promise

ഒരു പൂവ് പൊട്ടിയ മഷിക്കുപ്പിയില് ­‍ വച്ചാലും ചളുങ്ങിയ ഒരു പൌഡര്‍ ടിന്നില്‍ വച്ചാലും അതൊക്കെ പൂപ്പാത്രമായി മാറുന്നത് പോലെ ഉള്ളിലൊരു പൂവുണ്ടാകുകയാണ് ­ പ്രധാനം. അകപൊരുളിന്റെ സുഗന്ധമാണ് സൗന്ദര്യം ↗

— Fr.Boby Jose Kattikad

#flower #malayalam #beauty