We live and die in the midst of brokenness and beauty. They both engage us deeply in an insightful and real truth. Why? Life is like this. Our world and our lives, as it were, are cut in two. This tension permeates creation and us. Looking outside and then inside reminds us that this is the way it is. Sometimes there’s a dirge and sometimes there’s a praise, yet both are woven together and one never effaces the other. Faced with this reality, we long for redemption and the gift of resolution, where brokenness is absolved and beauty alone remains.
Monday, February 20, 2012
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What is pure beauty?
Sisyphos,
Thanks. Good question. Perhaps, when the brokenness aspect of the tension no longer exists in a present reality. Tension itself does not efface beauty.
People say: "Without the valleys, the peaks could not be appreciated." They do not seem to understand the consequence of this concept. Then there is no way to justify changing being.
Or maybe there is one: to destroy beauty, if beauty just lingers where there is decay.
Sisyphos,
I wonder if changing being could be a more or less notion, rather than an either - or one, at least as far as we can perceive it.
To destroy beauty, rather than embracing it, would deconstruct being.
But you see the problem with the dependance of beauty on decay? If that is the case then there is an either or: Either destroy beauty and decay or embrace it fully.
Sisyphos,
I'm thinking you mean dependence in terms of making a contrast. If so, that seems a present time perspective alone. In this time, I more or less embrace one and renounce the other looking towards an eventual either-or. While there is a relation to being here, there is also a distinction.
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