Some Ideas About Beauty, Truth, and What is Good

by Robert Wilkinson

Today I'll offer you a new look at some quotes from great minds of history regarding what is good, true, and beautifuI that I published a while ago. For your renewed consideration, Musings on Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Enjoy!

© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[gaye]

Morning Robert,
have been listening to the tape you made with the reading and each time i do i move deeper, thanks. How do you perceive the happenings at this moment that seem to rouse the energy and a call to move beyond our front doors to action and higher good. The Emerson quote seems moment appropriate. It isn't even a call, it is pandemonium and great shoving -gaye

[Robert]

Hi gaye - Glad the tape continues to yield insights. They tend to do that! We are all being called to move into a greater good, a more effective function, and prepare for even greater times ahead, even if they be fraught with peril from time to time. The trick is to able to train, wait for the right time, ignore the false urgencies of those who are fearful and impatient, and then when you hear the call, apply your heart and mind to the task that calls you. The evolutionary crisis approaches, so get ready, get strong and clear, and do whatever is your perfect role to preserve truth, goodness, and beauty while moveing through the storm.

[AceStar]

beautiful quotes dear Robert! always love visiting your site full wisdom :)

few quotes i wanna post

Love and Beauty are only found only when one is in Harmony with all of Life. It is through harmony that the true depths Love and Beauty are unveiled.

Love produces harmony and harmony creates beauty. Therefore the chief motto in life is 'Love, harmony and beauty'. Love, in all things and beings, the beloved God, in harmony with all in the right understanding, and beautify your life by observing the beauty within and without. By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

How the words 'love,' 'harmony,' and 'beauty' delight the heart of everyone who hears them! One may wonder what it can be in these words that is able to exert such a natural power upon the human soul. The answer is that if there is anything in life which appeals to the human soul, it is love and beauty. If one asks, 'And what besides those?' then the answer is, 'There is nothing else.'

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thanks! good luck :)

[Robert]

Hi AceStar - Great quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan! I've always love the Sufi masters for their utterly benign view of life, love, harmony, and beauty. I also found this from the Vedas while researching:

We invoke and imbibe Aum, the primordial sound of cosmic Harmony and pray for:
Peace and Harmony in Heaven;
Peace and Harmony in the Sky and on the Earth;
Peace and Harmony in the Waters;
Peace and Harmony in the Herbs, the Vegetation and the Forests;
Peace and Harmony among the Peoples and the Rulers of the World;
Peace and Harmony in Spiritual Quest and Realization;
Peace and Harmony for one and all;
Peace and Harmony Everywhere and in Every Thing;
Peace, True and Real Peace, Let that Peace repose in my inner space,
Peace of Peace, Everlasting Peace, We pray for Peace.

[AceStar]

hi Robert! beautiful words from Vedas :)
i also follow Sufi way and admire Hazrat Inayat Khan teaching :)

GOD bless

[Larissa]

*Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

[Robert]

Hi all - I love where this thread is going.

[Larissa]

Me too

[Larissa]

I like this song, I thought I should post it. :-)

When youre down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,
And you know whereever I am
Ill come running,
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yes.
Youve got a friend.

[Larissa]

This is our doom. To walk for ever and ever
The wilderness unblest,
To weary soul and sense in vain endeavour
And find no coign of rest;
To feel the pulse of speech and passion thronging
On lips for ever dumb,
To gaze on parched skies relentless, longing
For clouds that will not come;
Thirsty, to drink of loathsome waters crawling
With nameless things obscene,
To feel the dews from heaven like fire-drops falling,
And neither shade nor screen;
To fill from springs illusive riddled vessels,
Like the Danaïdes,
To grapple with the wind that whirls and wrestles,
Knowing no lapse of ease;

[Robert]

Hi Larissa - Bravo! (Will try to post somthing appropriate if it pops into consciousness.)