“Sometimes it is necessaryTo reteach a thing its loveliness”
“...it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness,to put a hand on its browof the flowerand retell it in words and in touchit is lovelyuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...”
“To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.”
“If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:Its loveliness increases;It will neverPass into nothingness.”
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”