The Art of Breaking Character

1 :: Beauty arrests the will, creating the void into which bliss (=God) can pour. ::

2 :: Beauty is a hint of what is to come; what lies on the other side of self-surrender. ::

3 :: Beauty is bliss, or God, disguised as an external object. ::

4 :: Beauty snatches our attention in rapture, forcing an opening in our spirit for the inrushing of God. ::

5 :: In moments of beauty, the self forgets, the soul remembers. ::

6 :: In beauty, the religious longing (to bind back, to reconnect to our Source) is fulfilled – for a moment – but is immediately confused with the conjuring of a purely external world. ::

7 :: Beauty requires and enriches a betweenness, an interaction between psyche and world, between internal and external. ::

8 :: Beauty is a compass. ::

9 :: In the experience of beauty we arrive back home in an instant, but are banished again just as quick, with no instructions as to how to return. ::

10 :: In the experience of beauty we are teased with a taste of divinity, with no directions to stabilise it, and little chance of understanding it – until we see that it is the same feeling that in other contexts we call peace, love, connection, or safety.