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The Bungalow by Kove Collection
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Then I added this: "There's something even more beautiful for me.
Beauty ie this place's beauty, is in the eye of the beholder -
that means it's we who are structured to bring beauty to it. But
'if a tree falls in the
forest,
and there's no one there to hear it' (as Bishop George Berkeley
said) 'does it make
a sound?'.
So if
a view
is incredible, breathtaking but there's no one there to appreciate
it, is it beautiful?". This is what's beautiful for me: that
it's you and I who have the power to define, experience (as if
create),
and appreciate beauty. Beauty is a quality we assign, not a quality
that's somehow intrinsic to something.".
In beautiful settings like this (or we could say "in settings where
we get who we are as
the source of the
beauty
we project"), it's a context transformation allows. The formula is:
transformation plus
natural
settings equals total
magic.
What transformation allows to burst forth is that final quarter
inch of a two foot eleven and three quarter inch beauty yardstick
(that's
vintage
Erhard).
At the front desk I bought a postcard on which I wrote "Thank You
Werner",
addressed, stamped, and mailed it. That's really all that needs to
be said to acknowledge him for our experience of this.
Werner
gets it. And in only three
terse
words. On just one
postcard.
It's from
one source of beauty
to another.
Once you get clear that we're
the source of the beauty
in life,
and that the beauty of any object we consider to be beautiful, is
assigned to it by us and isn't somehow intrinsic to
the thing in itself,
it soon becomes clear that we are also
the source
of the entire spectrum of any and all high-quality experiences in
our lives: the nuances of a great meal,
the mystery
of
fine art,
the subtleties of a great conversation, the breathlessness of a
sunrise, even the high-quality in
circumstances
ie any
circumstances
that at one time had no possibility of providing any high-quality
experience at all. It's really a life-altering realization.
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