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While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
We tend to see imperfections, things, that at first glance, don’t fit right. They stand in our way like obtrusive obstacles.
But what would happen if we purposely looked for beauty?
I think we would find beauty. I think we would see how each inanimate object, each living creature, including you and me, can bring balance and create beauty in our world.
~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
Of beauty, khalil Gibran writes,
…a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
I always find beauty here, Diana. ❤
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Diana,
You chose the right poem.
As we cannot think as God thinks, so, too, can we not love as God loves. In such love all things are not distorted by opinion nor perception. They all are simply beautiful.
-Alan
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Your post reminds me of a Confucius quote I read just last week: “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Good photographers have that gift of seeing beauty where others can’t.
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Love that quote, Jennifer and agree that good photographers are gifted in that way! ♡
Diana xo
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Beauty is different for everyone, which is the beauty of beauty
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I like that thought, Jo-Anne! ♡
Diana xo
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A great thought to look begin to look for beauty…it doesn’t mean avoiding the horrible, tragic. It does mean looking for the unexpected.
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Agreed! Thanks for stopping by Jean. ♡
Diana xo
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