#beauty

Black as night and as beautiful as forever. ↗

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain. ↗

#depression #pain #sadness #soul #beauty

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. ↗

— Jess Walter

#perception #beauty

Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins. No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap. ↗

— Hakim Bey

#beauty

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy. ↗

— Bo Lozoff

#mindfulness #reality #beauty

Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black silk drawers and a sweater and makes indelicate gestures on the lawn. That's called Building the Body Beautiful. She's mad about it. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#beauty

Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect. ↗

— Mabel Hale

#beauty

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#mystery #beauty

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go. ↗

— John Flanagan

#beauty

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it. ↗