05-25-2009, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by The Rev
The last time I took mushrooms, I was left with the undeniable impression that everything is inherently beautiful, even tragedy. Maybe ESPECIALLY tragedy. The quality of the experience of living life is almost entirely a matter of interpretation. It is a flash of color and sound that we make up a story to explain. But the story is not the reality, it is the flash of color and sound, and that is always the same. It is now, it is here, and it is experienced. There is genuine beauty in seeing this clearly.
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
- John Keats.
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God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
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