Beauty

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God is not only true and good, 
God is also beautiful (satyam-shivam-sundaram). 
Divinity creates beauty for the joy of it...

God does not aim at beauty. 
Whatever God does is beautiful. 
Would you say that a flower 
is trying to be beautiful? 
It is beautiful by its very nature. 

Similarly God is perfection itself, 
not an effort at perfection...
whatever is perceived blissfully 
is beautiful. 

Bliss is the essence of beauty.¹

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

The life that goes out 
in Love to all
is the life 
that is full and rich 
and continually expanding 
in beauty and power.²

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Waves of the Ocean

[1] Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM  THAT: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, (The Acorn Press, 1973), p. 96 AX 7758

[2] Maharishi International University, Science of Creative Intelligence for Secondary Education: First-Year Course, MIU Press, 1975), p. 218 AX 1163

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