Taylor Quinn, Outside Reading, CS Lewis Quote, 2/28/11
I was doing some reading when I came across a quote from CS Lewis. It said “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all beauty came from”. Beauty itself is an odd concept. What is beauty? How does one come to see something as beautiful? Is there a standard of beauty? Or is beauty really in the eye of the beholder?
I think that we can recognize beauty as something that is radically different from us. It is something that we desire. Now beauty may not always feel good or be pleasant. Sometimes beauty can be overwhelming. That beauty is subliminal. Art shows us beauty and it points to the fact that there is an ultimate beauty. That ultimate beauty is God. He is the creator of beauty. He encompasses all beauty, the beautiful and the Sublime.
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