John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

The ocean is one of the delights for the human eye. The seashore is a theatre of fluency. When the mind is entangled, it is nice to walk by the seashore, to let the rhythm of the ocean inside you. The ocean disentangles the netted mind. Everything loosens and comes back to itself. The false divisions are relieved, released and healed. Yet the ocean

The Greek word for “beauty” was kalon, which is related to the word for “call.” Beauty incites a desire to explore something and live within it. Children put posters of their obsessions on the wall. They draw images of them in art class and on the covers of their notebooks. “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart,” Vincent van Go

All landscape art reminds us: we live in a tabula rasa, and must write on it. It is our world, and its beauty is entirely inside our heads.

Maybe it is the role of the artists and mystics to attend to the seeming emptiness about us and find incredible riches there.