That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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