little nudges from our inward teacher about beauty
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Little Nudges from our Inward Teacher about Beauty . Beauty is a free spirit. [ John O’Donohue ]. The media generate relentless images of mediocrity and ugliness in talk shows… And so we gain a clear view of how much ugliness we endure and allow… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Little Nudges from our Inward Teacher
about Beauty
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Beauty is a free spirit. [ John O’Donohue ]
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The media generate relentless images of mediocrity and ugliness in talk shows… And so we gain a clear view of how much ugliness we endure and allow…
[ O’Donohue ]
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But Beauty is a free spirit. [ O’Donohue ]
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The media are becoming the global mirror and these shows tend to enshrine the ugly as the normal standard.
[ O’Donohue ]
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But Beauty is a free spirit. [ O’Donohue ]
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Beauty is mostly forgotten and made to seem naïve and romantic.
[ O’Donohue ]
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But Beauty is a free spirit.
She enables us to go with, rather than against the deepest tendencies of the Cosmos. [ O’Donohue ]
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The wonder of Beauty is her ability to surprise us. [ O’Donohue ]
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With swift, sheer grace Beauty is like a divine breath that blows the heart open.
[ O’Donohue ]
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The liveliness of Beauty is so fulfilling, we simply enjoy it. [ O’Donohue ]
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It never occurs to us to ask what purpose Beauty serves. [O’Donohue ]
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When we affirm another’s beauty, we affirm something that cannot be owned or drawn into the grid of small-mindedness or emotional need.
[ O’Donohue ]
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There is a profound nobility in beauty that can elevate life.
[ O’Donohue ]
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Nature is full of hidden geometry and harmony, as is the human mind. [ O’Donohue ]
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A smile can completely transform a face.Ultimately, it is the soul that makes the face beautiful. Each face is its own landscape. [ O’Donohue ]
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We feel beautiful when we are loved, and to evoke an awareness of beauty in another is to give them a precious gift they will never lose. [ O’Donohue ]
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Beauty is a free spirit. [O’Donohue ]
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Who are our Companions of Beauty?our kindred spiritspoets, painters, & stichers,composers and potters,musicians and writers,those who take walks with us to see Beauty,
Who are our close Companions of Beauty who journey with us… ?
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What are our Places of Beauty?
where we sense a Presence as no where else?
Places of Stillness, of home,
Where we go for healing,
To find ourselves again…
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What are our Doorways into Beauty we have not entered?Beauty we have not experienced because
we have not risked going through that door,
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Could the obstacles to that door which we created become stepping stones, so now
we take our companions of Beauty with us? ( We ask, would you come with me?)
Beauty is waiting for us on the other side…Beauty is waiting for our arrival…
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Who are our Companions of Beauty?
Our Places of Beauty
The Doorways we have not
walked through, into new Beauty?
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In what you have just experienced,
What will you take home with you,To noodle on, ruminate and chew on,Maybe take a walk to look for Beauty
Maybe just sit quietly for 5 minutes and absorb a poem, a little music,
the view through your window?
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Beauty is a free spirit. [ O’Donohue ]
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Sources:Photography & editing by John HolligerDivine Beauty, by John O’DonohueMusic: “Scottish Reflections,” Bonnie Ryder
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