I've often wondered, with life including so many seeming tragedies, cruelties & injustices personally and worldwide, how one can deal with such unknowns, insecurities & so much chaos without becoming wounded & otherwise adversely affected. Though such experiences on a higher level may indeed be used as a means to further awareness, growth & evolvement, it is understandable the undermining difficulty in acceptance. Given the above & what we actually know, is there a simple yet comprehensive perspective that can not only reconcile but rise above the worldly fog?

When experiencing life’s difficulties they can be viewed as compost to nurture the satisfaction derived from growing beauty from what seems ugliness. Not because it's moral, righteous or to derive esteem, but simply because it's beautiful. The key and enabling attitude: Beauty for itself, or own sake ( ... thereby imparts beauty ). This could also be applied as a key to happiness, for like beauty happiness without reason soon discovers its own reasons known but to the heart, its depth and breadth, like beauty transcendent in nature. For within the heart and that which manifests outward there-from, such as the qualities of kindness are of far greater value, influence and of enduring character than all other endeavors in life ... remembered and treasured above and beyond all else.

Why not beauty, happiness and goodness for their own sake?

It's hard to imagine a more direct, self-purifying or fulfilling distillation of the essence of the sacred or elevating foundation to build upon and refine. Being neither dependent nor exclusive such an approach does not conflict with the great faiths of the world or otherwise - For whether old or new such a path by its very nature seeks the integration and most comprehensive realization of truth above all else.

- bk

From the Harbors of Light Collection: Inspirational writings, photographs, literature,
poetry and prose from Brad Kalita, founder of Gathering Light ... a retreat.

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