Beauty


Being is beauty. Naked beauty veiled in thoughts. I gaze upon her when the mind is silent. Resting awareness in the body, thought dissolves. Every cell becomes a chalice of fire. Even the voice of the Creator falls silent when I behold the glory of my true body, my nervous system extended through the mushroom tapestry of the soil, through microbial breath spores in the sky, through photons of consciousness in the stars. Black holes at the center of the galaxies are pulsations of silence in every quark of flesh. What do I seek? The glory of my own Being. Where can I glimpse it? In the mirror of your heart, friend. Resonating with the heart of a friend, I attune to my own soul. How could there be any conflict between solitude and community? Between transcendence and embodiment? Each dust mote of this human form enshrines the transcendental formless radiance of God.


Persian miniature by Mahmoud Farshchian

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