SPIRITUAL EXPLORATIONS – 327

WE ARE EXPLORING THE HEAVENLY ATTRIBUTE OF BEAUTY

+ We are called to create and enjoy a realm of compassion, peace, justice and sustainable abundance for all.

+ Beauty breaks us open and connects us to the hearts of others, the soul of the world, deepens our connections with the places we live and dream about, the people we love, animals and plants, trees and rivers. Beauty opens the door to creativity and wisdom.

-- J. Ruth Gendler in Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality

+ Beauty is the only answer to terror. But Beauty is only skin deep and illusory if it does not include all within its harmonies. All. Anything less than this is counterfeit Beauty, a thin and precarious facade that will eventually crumble.

-- Patricia Adams Farmer in Embracing a Beautiful God

This was the Spirituality & Practice quote of the day on July 4, 2016.

+ All. In other words, everything God creates is beautiful and there is simply no excuse for seeing anything but beauty in every person and every creature.  Period.

Ruth Gendler is right: “Beauty opens the door to creativity and wisdom.” We definitely need it all of the time.  Fortunately, it is available to us at all times and places.  We simply need to know this and enjoy this and see all kinds of fantastic connections.  We are indeed:

Intimately

Intricately

Infinitely

Connected by a Matrix of

Unconditional

Unlimited

Uniting

Love

Which is

Miraculous

Mysterious and

Marvelous

+ Spirituality & Practice offers plenty of resources on the spiritual practice of Beauty. Also, there is an S&P Twelves Gallery of memes on Beauty.

+ I would love it if you offered a guest post.  And, I have work to do on the Abundancetrek Beauty page.  Maybe you can help.  Send an email with the subject “Beauty” or “Heavenly Attributes” or “Guest Post” to John@abundancetrek.com.

+ You can always find a link to any of the Spiritual Explorations posts by going to http://abundancetrek.com/sepostsaccess.html