I know you asked us to focus on human form of beauty, but... at the very beginning of the article I immediately began thinking of nature. In psychology (you'll have to fill in the correct word) there's a moment that 'takes your breath away'. My moments have always been due to nature. I won't describe all --- one such time, I was in the car w/ my mom, we drove up a hill & as soon as we got to the top the full moon was right there at the end of the road we were on, on the horizon!!! We both gasped! Another example I'll try to describe; family trip driving across AZ, oldest son asleep; at the moment he woke up we were at the top of a hill looking out over an expanse of cacti!! He gasped! He then asked us to turn around so we could reexperience that experience. 🙂 In psychology I remember that the telling of such experiences often fail to convey the true depth of the beauty of what has been seen.
your weeklies always share the beauty of something that brings you joy - TY!
Defining beauty abjectly for everyone is a bit of a slippery slope. As E.B. White once immortalized, "One man's meat is another man's poison." Consensus may play a part, but defining something as "beautiful" also contains a bit of arrogance within. I have walked round and round the statue of Venus di Milo in the Louvre and find that she has a nasty rash on her back right shoulder. Not too pretty. The beauty I find and feel in the world comes from within me. My 83 year old wife is one of the most beautiful people in my life. I love her and I love to look at her. You might have another opinion. I hope we all have the capacity for recognizing beauty personally when we come across it, but the appreciation of it must come from within.
Dr. Mardfy Grothe speaks a language we all understand, making the most rprofound and tthoughtful quotations accessible and adding delight to our essential human qualities.
If you think that all you need to know is Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth, theny you will definitely flunk out of school and will be unprepared to do anything in life. Perhaps you become a collector of quotations or lyricist for popular songs.I cannot think of many other professions you wd be suited for. Perhaps Psychologist?
Then Byron wrote: "She walks in beauty like the night."
Who has ever seen night walk anywhere? Night does not walk forward or rbackward. Byron was another know-nothing jerk about beauty.
I know you asked us to focus on human form of beauty, but... at the very beginning of the article I immediately began thinking of nature. In psychology (you'll have to fill in the correct word) there's a moment that 'takes your breath away'. My moments have always been due to nature. I won't describe all --- one such time, I was in the car w/ my mom, we drove up a hill & as soon as we got to the top the full moon was right there at the end of the road we were on, on the horizon!!! We both gasped! Another example I'll try to describe; family trip driving across AZ, oldest son asleep; at the moment he woke up we were at the top of a hill looking out over an expanse of cacti!! He gasped! He then asked us to turn around so we could reexperience that experience. 🙂 In psychology I remember that the telling of such experiences often fail to convey the true depth of the beauty of what has been seen.
your weeklies always share the beauty of something that brings you joy - TY!
Thanks for your kind words, DJ. I've had a few similar "take your breath away" moments when it comes to natural beauty.
Defining beauty abjectly for everyone is a bit of a slippery slope. As E.B. White once immortalized, "One man's meat is another man's poison." Consensus may play a part, but defining something as "beautiful" also contains a bit of arrogance within. I have walked round and round the statue of Venus di Milo in the Louvre and find that she has a nasty rash on her back right shoulder. Not too pretty. The beauty I find and feel in the world comes from within me. My 83 year old wife is one of the most beautiful people in my life. I love her and I love to look at her. You might have another opinion. I hope we all have the capacity for recognizing beauty personally when we come across it, but the appreciation of it must come from within.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Mike. I feel about my wife the same way you do about yours. I guess we're a couple of lucky guys!
A wonderful discussion of beauty on so many levels. Thank you for broadening my horizons!!
Thanks for your kind words, Barbara. It's always nice to hear from you.
Dr. Mardfy Grothe speaks a language we all understand, making the most rprofound and tthoughtful quotations accessible and adding delight to our essential human qualities.
As they say here in my adopted state of North Carolina, "Bless your heart"
When it comes to BEAUTY, poets are so stupid.
If you think that all you need to know is Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth, theny you will definitely flunk out of school and will be unprepared to do anything in life. Perhaps you become a collector of quotations or lyricist for popular songs.I cannot think of many other professions you wd be suited for. Perhaps Psychologist?
Then Byron wrote: "She walks in beauty like the night."
Who has ever seen night walk anywhere? Night does not walk forward or rbackward. Byron was another know-nothing jerk about beauty.
Poets? fuggedabout them losers.
Written like a true poet, Louis!
One of my favorites about beauty... 'A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. "
Ah yes, a classic from Adlai Stevenson. Thanks, Patrick.