From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 13:09:42 BST
More notes on Beauty, Art and DQ:
Beauty is a fact, a fundamentally reality.
Beauty is culturally universal,. a unique human characteristic that arose
with self-consciousness.
Beauty creates a holy hush, a moment where you hardly dare breath, a
moment of reverence to mysterious, majestic wonder.
A tuning fork within us hums when we encounter something beautiful.
In the presence of great beauty, one feels fully present in the now
moment.
When something works well it has a rightness about it that we call beauty.
The present moment is our ocean which, at best, is beauty all around.
The pleasure of beauty is a reward that the brain is designed to give
itself for the accomplishment of certain creative tasks.
Science chooses the beautiful theory because beauty is the way the world
works.
The only means we have for recognizing the difference between creative
evolution and its destructive parodies is the sense of beauty.
Reason has it limits. It cannot tell the difference between a finger
painting and a Rembrandt.
We reserve the word beautiful for that which pleases us to the highest
degree and most exceptionally.
Most other goods like food drink health and wealth which pleases us please
us only on being possessed. They please us when they satisfy our desire to
have them, not just contemplate them. In contrast, we may be quite content
simply to contemplate or behold and object of beauty. If in addition we
desire to possess it, we do not regard it as beautiful because of that
fact.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives. -Wallace Stevens
Do not stand at my grave and wee; I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awake in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there.
Best,
Platt
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