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The human soul is famished for beauty; we seek it all over the place in scenery, music, art work, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, faith, and in ourselves. Whenever we experience the Beautiful, there's a wonderful sense of homecoming; we feel fully alive. Our lives become illuminated, and behind the shudder of looks we come to glance the sure form of things. On Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful; it will always be secretly there, awaiting but our attention and reverence in order to stand out. Beauty is the true priestess of individuation. But our times are dominated by nervousness and with what is vulgar, coarse, and artificial. Were Beauty to awaken in the domains of politics, faith, planning, discourse, and finding, our world would mend, and fresh wells of hope would refresh us. Kathleen Raine, the British poet says: "Strangest of most is the ease with which the eye-sight is lost, awareness contracts, we ignore over and over again, until recollection is stirred by some icon of this beauty. Then we bear in mind and speculate why we ever before forgot."
