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Thoughts On Beauty

11/5/2019

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The pavilion of the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
In Abu Dhabi, Claude and I have been ever so fortunate to enjoy the Manarat Al Saadiyat, and its traveling exhibits from the British Museum, and to enjoy the Louvre-Abu Dhabi, a campus of the Louvre, Paris.  The solitude and beauty of each are heady and wonderful.

I can sort of imagine the English poet John Keats, standing in a perfectly quiet room of the British Museum in London, observing a Greek urn.  This young man, who died at 26 of tuberculosis, was moved by the engraving on the funerary urn and wrote,

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” ~ John Keats

Beauty is truth.  Beauty captures us.  We cannot get away.

I live in the world of orthodontics.  Orthodontics is a beauty treatment.

“If there is a defect on the soul, it cannot be corrected on the face, but if there is a defect on the face and one corrects it, it can correct a soul.”      ~ Jean Cocteau


Seeing beauty - of a smile, of art, of nature - holds each of us.  We cannot get away.  It connects us to the Universe.

Today, see the beauty in your day, in your world, around you.
Feel its joy.
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