...return to wholeness...

...called to walk in beauty...

"To behold beauty dignifies your life;

it heals you and calls you out

beyond the smallness of your own self-limitation

to experience new horizons.

To experience beauty is to have your life enlarged."

~John O'Donohue

"There is a light in beauty

which no frontier can limit or contain;

it has a distinctive dignity.

Like consciousness,

beauty shines with a light

from beyond itself."

~John O'Donohue



"The earth is full of thresholds where

beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze."

~John O'Donohue

"In Greek the word for 'the beautiful' is to kalon.  It is related to the world kalein which includes the notion of 'call'.  When we experience beauty, we feel called.  The Beautiful stirs passion and urgency in us and calls us forth from aloneness into the warmth and wonder of an eternal embrace.  It unites us again with the neglected and forgotten grandeur of life."

~John O'Donohue

All the quotations in this post by John O'Donohue are from his book Beauty: The Invisible Embrace.

...all that it does...

Quiet

and unnoticed

the flower

of your whole life

has opened

its perfect petals.

~William Carlos Williams

The chestnut tree is all that it does.

~W.B. Yeats

Sharing with Lisa Gordon's The Creative Exchange.

Autumn Photo-Art

We have still not have any snow here in the Montreal area - unlike many other parts of Canada and the U.S.  So, I feel I can still post some photographs (digitally manipulated) taken of Autumn leaves and Autumn Chrysanthemums.  :)  I hope viewing them brings a little pleasure to your day.

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