Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Quiroga - 279

 Beauties

The beauty of forms and appearances is seductive, produces enchantment and becomes an object of envy, jealousy and all sorts of limiting passions, because our selfish humanity feels entitled to be the exclusive owner of this apparent power of beauty.

However, the beauty of shapes and appearances is transitory, that of physical bodies lasts a few years, that of buildings lasts generations, but time wears them down until they inevitably disappear.

For those who love beauty without feeling the need to appropriate it, a wider field of appreciation of what is beautiful opens up, therefore, the beauty of practical attitudes of righteousness, the beauty of goodness, the beauty of what is true; subjective beauty is not subject to the wear and tear of time, it is combined into an eternal gerund, because it was never born and will never end.

The human factor complicates everything, but without this ingredient nothing would be possible either, therefore, the complications arising from social relationships and team spirit are burdens worth facing.

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