Could It Be True?
About an hour ago we received an important announcement in the mailbag from Peter Kleissner:
Life is beautiful
Can you get behind him on this one? Let us know.
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September 28th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
So beautiful. So precious. I know this every time I share a laugh with my husband or see my foster daughter or adopted daughter have a “Eureka” moment. Every time my cat sits on my lap and purrs. With every tasty drop of a hot cup of cider and every ounce of nostalgia that overcomes me when I view a photograph. So beautiful. So precious.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
As the old joke goes, ‘it beats the alternative’. But yes, ‘life’is beautiful. It is beautiful in it’s early stages in children when thy have the ability to stare at the world through fresh eyes. It’s beautiful in nature and animals, in the partnerships we grow with other living creatures that we can truely call ‘unconditional love’. It’s there in the acts of heroism and altruism that never make the paper. It’s the hand of a stranger that knows you are in need, not to care for you, but to let you know that you are not alone. Life is exquisite, but it requires tender and forceful care against the hate, dogmatism, envy, callous disregard for the other,and all the other ill’s that a society who gorges itself on the misery of others can give. The majority of people in the US, have more to give than take. When we realize that, and act upon it, we will finally be the greatest nation and not a pretender to the crown.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:37 am
It’s not just that life in all its iterations happens to be able to strike us as a beautiful phenomenon, but that it’s the only phenomenon of real beauty in this universe. Beauty is not beauty without life. Our reluctance to survive and cooperate as a species is proof that life’s too beautiful to quit, because we continue to live despite (almost) everybody’s distinct efforts to discourage us by oppression, terrorism, hate, bigotry, etc. All these calamities take place within the confines of a living world, and as such have their (maybe unfortunate) place of beauty along its continuum. Life is beautiful, and every seemingly negative piece of it is at most a bad example of how eternally sublime our existence really is. So, consciousness validates itself (even its extinction) and its tangentially-relevant facts once again! HA!
October 6th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Everybody sees the beauty in something, some see the beauty in a grain of sand, and others only in the whole beach. If we could see through everybody’s eyes, we would see the beauty of everything. Life IS beautiful, everything is beautiful, because everything is as it is, as it’s supposed to be.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Kafka said: “There is hope, an infinite amount of hope… but not for us.” Yes, life is beautiful. Of course it’s beautiful. The real question is, can we get out of our own way long enough to notice that beauty?
October 19th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Yea I received a mail too ^^ Very funny idea, keep doing ! it makes the people thoughtful
November 9th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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