May You Walk in Beauty
May Beauty be Before You
May Beauty be Behind You
May Beauty be to the Left of You
May Beauty be to the Right of You
May Beauty be above You
May Beauty be below You
May Beauty be Within You
The Navaho’s said it so beautifully, can you imagine how they would have said it in their mocassins, with babies on their backs, as they gathered their food.
In the painting above, can you feel how immersed Ophelia is in the beauty? How gone has she in the sweet thickness of divinity - it seems to penetrate the depth of her very being.
I watched an amazing video yesterday about Challenge Days with teens in the United States school system. They broke down the barriers that separated them, until they felt their humanity - their beauty.
The tsunami in 2004, Katrina in New Orleans, within the midst of these overwhelming disasters, beauty could be found. The best and the worst of humanity shone out.
I feel it is important to find beauty even when the sh*t is hitting the fan, and not from a place of denial and not being present with what is. But from a place of soft-hearted openness. To sit with a person dying and to feel the flower of their humanity, it’s like they are still some mothers’ beautiful baby.
The beauty is thick, I remember watching a Krishna Das DVD and he spoke about his teacher Baba Neem Karoli Maharj and his teacher being ‘Lost in Love’ - that to me, is the beauty - that it takes your breath away and your heart is awash with heavenly waters.