Later in life, when I saw beautiful architecture, I looked at it with the same eagerness and happiness that had come whenever I had encountered beauty. It was many years before I realized fully that the quickening impulse of eager satisfaction which comes to one who sees beauty is the same kind of gladness, no mater what form beauty takes-- poetry, philosophy, music, architecture, love, and delight. Something in the structure of man's mind and heart vibrates with a profound sense of well-being to all the manifestations of beauty that the senses encounter. I did not know it when I was a boy, but I am sure now that the beauty of whatever kind one feels is God-- the Universal Soul of things-- trying to speak the common language to man's heart.
The universal soul of things... now that is an image I could get behind..! You are very adept at the selections you choose in your readings..!
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