Gaia: God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything - Sharing Beauty - What is Beauty?

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:28:21 GMT

Intriguing quotes, Andrew.

Source

Love,

Nicole

Re: What is Beauty?

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:39:23 GMT

Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

- Michaelangelo

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

- Leo Tolstoy

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

- Oscar Wilde

Re: What is Beauty?

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:52:20 GMT

yes....a beautiful image.
Thank you, Nicole.
blessings,
CG

Re: What is Beauty?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:59:26 GMT

perfect photo - new icon....cute kitten....

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:55:44 GMT

Ah, glory!

Symmetopia - From Shameslaya's photos

Re: What is Beauty?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:39:59 GMT

Thanks Nicole

Like Sleeping in the forest even more...

Surrender (Pt 2)!

Earth speaks her soothing melody
"You are mine"
she croones

Surrender to me
I beg you
rest here for a while
Whisper your faded dreams
in my gnarled old ears

"I have all the time in the world"

Oh, peaceful rest
Oh, perfect bliss
"I'm here"
"I'm here"

Solid, wholesome
protective earth
"I bless you"

I blink in wonderment
I am home at last.....

Taikunping

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:29:55 GMT

What a stunningly sweet poem, Tai. Thank you!

Here's another Mary Oliver,

Sleeping In The Forest

I thought the earth remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

- Mary Oliver

NEXT Poem

Links

(Mary Oliver Poems)

Re: What is Beauty?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:20:33 GMT

I've never read any of her work, but I like this one - it made me think of a poem I'd written..

Surrender

Sweet scented leaf
I watch as you plunge
and swoop ever downwards

Earth Mother catches your
dry limp body
caressing it
greeting it
cradling it
against it's own
crumbling black skin

Leaves damp with colour
lie fragrantly resting
Hues of cherry and amber
bring light to our darkened
autumn days

Leaf bodies resting
stacked one against the other
in sweet abandonment

Autumn in a time for surrender

Nov 08
Taikunping

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:40:43 GMT

Yes!

Here's a poem by Mary Oliver, do you like her work?

Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End? by Mary Oliver

Don't call this world adorable, or useful, that's not it.
It's frisky, and a theater for more than fair winds.
The eyelash of lightning is neither good nor evil.
The struck tree burns like a pillar of gold.
But the blue rain sinks, straight to the white
feet of the trees
whose mouths open.
Doesn't the wind, turning in circles, invent the dance?
Haven't the flowers moved, slowly, across Asia, then Europe,
until at last, now, they shine
in your own yard?
Don't call this world an explanation, or even an education.
When the Sufi poet whirled, was he looking
outward, to the mountains so solidly there
in a white-capped ring, or was he looking
to the center of everything: the seed, the egg, the idea
that was also there,
beautiful as a thumb
curved and touching the finger, tenderly,
little love-ring,
as he whirled,
oh jug of breath,
in the garden of dust?

Re: What is Beauty?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:33:21 GMT

Nicole, the first time I saw it - well.....

Seen it a few times, and it is so full of devotional stillness, it never fails to move me, just wish I could learn all the movements to it!
Love Tai

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:19:21 GMT

Thank you, Tai, there is something very powerful about the combination of meditative music put into bodily gestures, in unison like that.

Love,

Nicole

Re: What is Beauty?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:02:17 GMT

Hi everyone,

I found this both beautiful and inspirational:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpByCdTwfc vocals Hein Braat

I love the unity of everyone performing the mantra with the vocals
Love Tai

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:53:44 GMT

A lovely image, Mr!

Peace,

Nicole

Re: What is Beauty?

http://mrprophet.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:38:17 GMT

"Beauty, like people, comes in all colors." --Mr. Prophet

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:21:35 GMT

Thanks for dropping in, C.G.

For those who have not yet seen the thread in Gaia Networking, C.G. is their featured member for the month of January.

January 2009 Featured Member -- C.G. Walters

What a delightful thread it is!

Love,

Nicole

Re: What is Beauty?

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:30:40 GMT

Thank you for sharing these quotes, Albert. Excellent.
blessings,
CG

Re: What is Beauty?

http://voyager.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:34:13 GMT

Thanks Nicole, the blog comment of Felix Bopp too is enriching.

And a global report is indeed necessary for the BIG spectrum of view, perspectives and contexts f various definitions....

Best,

Albert

Re: What is Beauty?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:01:44 GMT

Thank you, Albert. I found the blog very intriguing, including the contrasting link about world-wide ideas about beauty.

The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report

Love,

Nicole

What is Beauty?

http://voyager.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:37:25 GMT

Club of Amsterdam, a very innovative, creative and open.minded one brought this compilation of quotes about beauty. Very interesting and true, as I find: www.clubofamsterdam.com

.Quotes about Beauty

"Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to." ~ Pablo Picasso

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye." ~ Grey Livingston

" Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it ever six months." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful." ~ Karl Kraus

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing." ~ Marie Stopes

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." ~ John Cage

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." ~ William Somerset Maugham

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~ John Muir

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." ~ Martin Buxbaum

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness." ~ Karl Lagerfeld

"The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds." ~ Madonna

Yves Saint Laurent infused his label with his creative genius, elegant and refined personality, discreet and distinguished, during a half century of work, in both luxury and ready-to-wear, because he was convinced that beauty was a necessary luxury for all men and all women.

"Love of Beauty is taste, Creation of beauty is Art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds." ~ Coco Chanel

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God." ~ Jean Anouilh

"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." ~ Edgar Allen Poe

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." ~ Voltaire