Beauty beyond vision
Beauty is a concept regularly applied to forms and structures which we appreciate with our eyes. But there are other forms and structures which are not immediately visible because they are exist over distances beyond the human scale or time periods beyond the human life. The structure of an ecosystem, or the form of a language as it develops over centuries are examples of a beauty which truly transcends personal existence in the real world in a way that makes 'spiritual' beauty a mere sham; the fluff of desperation mingled with boredom in the tumble-dryer of superstitious 'beliefs'.
4 Comments:
truth can't be fully discovered with reason nor heart, truth is an experience not a thought or a feeling.
How true. Thanks for the post.
So what's an experience? Is it not the act of having thoughts and beliefs? To experience something is to perceive it, which we do through our senses no?
Well, I guess an experience can be the act of having thoughts and beliefs, but it also can be the act of accidentally putting one's hand on a hot stove. However this post wasn't really about experience, but about a conception of beauty that transcends the purely visual. Maybe something mathematical? Maybe something structural, though not physical?
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