Albert Einstein once said: .The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.. Can we see? Wrapped in awe and wonder. When was the last time you let that happen? How many people walk around in life feeling wrapped in awe and wonder? Most of us are wrapped in confusion and fear; wrapped in I can’t do this, wrapped in: What’s going to happen?.
What are you wrapped in? When was the last time you took time out to notice something beautiful? Remember, the Law of Attraction teaches us that whatever we focus on increases. Spend time each day NOTICING beauty around you and let it touch you. Helen Keller tells us, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
So, to cultivate the Quality of Beauty, we need to look beyond the physical and take time every day to look at the physical so that we can see beyond it. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said: “Hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of your life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” When I first read that, it made me ask myself what I spent my time on. Who has time to read a book, to listen to music, to go to a place of beauty? Isn’t that what we frequently say? I hear more retired people today saying that they don’t have the time. .I’m too busy.. What’s this about? What are we busy about? Take time to smell the roses. Can we, every single day take some time to listen to music, to read some poetry? What would life be like if we started living that way instead? To focus on what is real, what is important in life, what’s beautiful, rather than what we now focus on, whatever that is.
Walt Whitman tells us .A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.. And, once again, Ralph Waldo Emerson, .Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
One of my favorite Chinese proverbs says, “When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. The moment that we give attention to anything, like a blade of grass, it becomes mysterious. It becomes awesome. It becomes a magnificent world unto itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller once said: “When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
American author, poet and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
