Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them Marcus Aurelius
For me beauty is not just an adjective it is a feeling generated by the senses. We usually associate beauty with our sense of sight, yet I believe there might be more to it. The feeling of beauty might be generated by a profound nature setting like the picture of the Lutsen mountains above, but it is as much a feeling as a visual. If we look beyond sight and associate beauty with feeling, we know that it can come from every sense. Smelling fresh cut grass in the spring-beautiful. The softness of a fuzzy blanket-beautiful. The taste of coffee on a chilly morning-beautiful. Hearing your kid say I love you Mom-beautiful.
Beauty involves all the senses: sight, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling. It is the feeling generated by the senses that is the beauty.
The tricky part of beauty is that one needs to be paying attention and, in the moment, to see it. We can be so caught up in our own mental filing cabinets generating stories about the data in the filing cabinets that we don't absorb the feelings generated by our senses.
Today, I will pay attention to beauty.
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