Beauty embraced me this week – in nature, with my son, who is a year old today, and with my clients. This post is for Leighton, Laurie and you.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. Beauty is the true priestess of individuation. But our times are dominated by anxiety and by what is vulgar, coarse, and artificial. Were Beauty to awaken in the fields of politics, religion, planning, discourse, and seeing, our world would heal and fresh wells of hope would refresh us.
~ John O’Donohue, poet and theologian
Name beautiful things to acknowledge them. Pay attention to how you feel when you acknowledge the beauty in something. The words we use to recognize beauty can include words like powerful, loving, genius, peace…and beautiful.
What is beautiful to you? Is it taking a bath, the sound of your friend’s voice, or a solution you thought of at work? Use the word “beautiful” liberally. Name pleasing experiences and things as beautiful, even though, at first, they may seem only mundanely, or obviously, or abstractly beautiful. With attention, beauty thrives.
Beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your joy … and bringing beauty into focus today!
Today I treated myself to a bed in where I spent the day reading delightful books, devouring blogs like yours and reflecting on the all the goodness that surrounds me. Thank you for this post.
Bravo, for nurturing yourself today and embracing “goodness that surrounds me.” Love that.
ps I’m a peonies girl too!
Today I treated myself to a bed in where I spent the day reading delightful books, devouring blogs like yours and reflecting on the all the goodness that surrounds me. Thank you for