Beauty! Find it. Know it

If you’re not looking for more success, stuff, or sex and you’re searching for beauty.

Here’s how to find it:

French philosopher, Simone Weil there are only two things that pierce the human heart. Beauty. Affliction.

Life brings you affliction. In buckets. This leaves a longing in your soul for beauty. But to find it, you must know it. Beauty Hides In Plain Sight

Beauty is not a place. Mountains and beaches haven’t monopolised the market. So whenever your heart is stirred by A song. A film. The touch of a loved one. The joy of a child. An act of kindness. Then you have found beauty.

Beauty Is Subtle. never forces itself on you nor demands your attention. It invites your attention. If you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss it.

Beauty Is Organic It can’t be manufactured nor forced. It presents itself naturally to those who are ready to receive it.

Our world is so artificial. Screens. Simulations. Code. Beauty resides in the real. Sensory. Visual. Tangible. Real.

It’s outside your door. It’s inside the person next to you.

Beauty Is Impractical. Although it isn’t efficient, it cannot be scheduled.

Beauty delights in presenting itself at the least opportune times. Often Unexpected. Arises in unlikely places. On the edges of your sorrow. Out of a tragedy.

Henri Nouwen once wrote that in every moment of life, sorrow and joy kiss.

On the other side of your aching heart, Beauty plays hide-and-seek. Playful.

You can’t multi-task with beauty. It wants to be Coddled. Drawn out. Focused on.

Beauty Is Elusive, there for a moment, then gone in a flash. A shooting star glimmering across the night sky, then vanishing. When it finds you, delight in it while you can.

There can be no beauty in violence. It builds up. Restores. Repairs. Reconnects Redeems. Reframes.

But beauty loosens your grip on the need to understand. It shifts your view, opens your heart, gives perspective. In the ugliness of life, what’s missing is beauty. It’s all around you, yet hard to find.

Because it’s Subtle. Organic. Real. Impractical. Unexpected. Playful

It demands presence. It’s elusive. Yet, its power is unmatched.