Beauty is not the end. Beauty is not the aim. Beauty is the means, inspiration, and catalyst to purpose: to create, perpetuate, continue, for another generation more; on and on, into infinity, or at last the chain is broken-when we fail to see the greater purpose and in beauty made as end and aim, the chain is broken and in barrenness continuity of its wonder becomes no more.
Begin with the beauty.
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“That’s a pretty way to speak of attraction, of what you wish to do…”
“It’s true. It’s more than a moment’s pleasure., for the creation and life that comes in its making. There is method and purpose to its ways. Why divorce it from the miracle and sacred it enables?”
She smiles, contemplating deeper truth.