Receiving Loveliness

Loveliness is Everywhere

the loveliness is everywhere even in the ugliest and most hostile environment the loveliness is everywhere at the turning of a corner in the eyes and on the lips of a stranger in the emptiest areas with no place for hope and only death to invite the heart the loveliness is everywhere it emerges incomprehensible inexplicable it rises in its own reality and what we must learn is how to receive it into ours. ~Kenneth White In the midst of failure, turmoil, ugliness, pain, trauma, and grief; it is difficult to experience anything that is lovely. However, when we look from the corner of our eye, use all our five senses and are attentive to the situation, something often emerges that is lovely if we can receive it. Something beautiful lies within all our turmoil and upheaval. Search for that glimmer of hope and provide what it needs to bloom and grow into its loveliness.

Reflection

• Where does loveliness emerge for you? Where does it emerge in the midst of turmoil and upheaval?

• Look for beauty today in the ugliest of things. What is it like for you to receive the loveliness?

• How might you make this a practice to be attentive to the loveliness in the difficult and hostile environments?

Music

• Hidden Things, Sounds of the Eternal, Meditative Chants & Prayers by John Philip Newell, Soloist, Suzanne Butler

• Prayer for Beauty, Sounds of the Eternal, Meditative Chants and Prayers by John Philip Newell, Soloist Suzanne Butler