'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
This quote didn'’t mean all that much to me in the past. I just thought it a mystical whimsical thing with a touch of romance. Today I think differently. So much so I think this statement is in fact a declaration of life after death. Even more, it is evidence that we NEVER die. You likely think this an absurd statement on my part but before you go else where, think about the following:
- In general mankind is afraid of the unknown, until we understand what that unknown is.
- And yet there are certain things that we look upon for the first time in awe and wonder and find them beautiful.
- There are other things that when we first look to them we find frightening and gut wrenching.
- Not only things but also different people we come in contact with or '‘sense' can provoke these differing emotional sensations.
- Why? How do we differentiate these things? What is in us that makes us decide which we are to find beautiful or alarming?
You make think it is simply a matter of conditioned reflexes as to what we personally find appealing or what we fear. Yet there are commonalties which nearly everyone would agree on as being wondrous and or fearful.
To look into a dark cavernous hole that emits an obnoxious order would likely not bring about a response of beauty to anyone. Where as the image of an immense and colorful gaseous cloud would be thought of as beautiful if it was know to be a nebula in outer space.
We may have never seen either of things before yet the excepted and expected response would be the same in most everyone.
Theory: I used to believe we are here (on planet earth) to learn. But I have come to know that we are here not so much to learn but to remember. To remember what we already know but what we have forgotten.
Think of it this way; we start off living in a perfect environment where every wish was at hand. Every desire and want was at our command. To add to this, there is no hate, anger, greed or anything of an adverse or evil doing. Then suppose you wish to experience a thing called jealousy, or anger or something evil. How would you do this? Why not go to a place where this could be experienced and so we did, so we could experience it. We call this place earth.
So it is here that when we see or sense something close to our home (with our creatorwhere we had everything) that we see beauty as we recognize it as something close to home. Likewise we recognize a '‘good'’ soul when we encounter someone we knew. And we sense awkward uneasiness when the experience is far from our heavenly bliss that we have known.
It is then that the truth in beauty can be found and the beauty in truth is all that is needed to know.
A wish for all - be the Light
Sincerely
RG Whyte
