A Most Beautiful Song

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"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

When I read these words of Emerson I think of how there is beauty everywhere for everyone and that all we need to do is be aware of its presence.

Some questions are: How can we be more aware? Is it the same for everyone? What would be some differences? And precisely what do we gain and experience with this awareness?

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Gregory

I am falling in love, and it is beautiful. 

I have connected to an exquisite soul in a darling man, and it is so so gloriously beautiful to see that the legends of love are true.

The sour fog of crushing and pining and wishing and doubting has cleared, and the words of love songs like these are so astonishingly real I feel they were written for us to sing to each other.

This clarifying quality is typical of certain beautiful, transcendent experiences. Different from those that overwhelm the mind enveloping us in vast, warm oceans of incomprehensible pleasures, these beauties are the sterling deluge of cold water from above that remind us - with physical irrefutability - of every nerve and every cell and every pulse of our being and leave us wondering how we could ever have walked and breathed and loved and learned without remembering at each instant the stuff we and everything are made of.