For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Watching my aunt and cousin do this hopeful ritual made the statue one of the most beautiful things I saw in Europe, even though it was small and worn down. Since the dawn of civilisation, the vision and appreciation of beauty has gripped man’s imagination.

Now, with my sisters twelve and Jon seventeen, I still cherish the beauty of my relationships with my siblings. The authors invoke our praying imagination to comprehend how culinary hospitality, fashion faithfulness, cinematic revelations, and storied truth serve as rich resources for worship. We are member-supported, so your donation is critical to KCRW's music programming, news reporting, and cultural coverage. Ingenito, a professor of Persian language and literature at UCLA, has spent half of his life delving into the message of Sa‘di.

This is partially because a photograph can transform even something normally plain into something exotic. Over the past three and a half years at Bryn Mawr, I have taken about twelve albums of photographs of my friends, the school, and scenes I've seen. Because of this, beauty can be found in anything, whether it be familiar or not, simple or complex, or whether it affects sight or the heart. page-template-default,page,page-id-3025,woocommerce-no-js,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,vertical_menu_enabled,qode-title-hidden,qode_grid_1300,side_area_uncovered_from_content,transparent_content,columns-3,qode-child-theme-ver-1.

Until I was about seven or eight, my friends and I would insist that Jon play with us, usually in some form of torturous make-believe. The fifth volume documents the astonishing array of beauty and adornment practices spanning the vastly unique cultures of the Sahel, ‘the Shore’ of West Africa. For Christmas this year, my grandfather gave us all a book he wrote, Unforgettable Memories of a Lucky Man. Whether divided by aeons or continents, ancient societies recognised beauty’s single unifying quality as a perceptibly luminous state of wellbeing, devoid of the dis-ease that plagues a body out of harmony with itself and its environment, and whose rural women adhere to simple, ancestral methods of beautification and traditional preparations that have been handed down over the generations. Crashing waves on the rocks in winter storms were always loud, and in spring the air was fresh with shore flowers.Perhaps the language of Dante does not lend itself to the verbal somersaults that post-Lacanian English does.

I probably scarred him for life, especially when I lost interest in having a shadow, but I cherish the beauty of our closeness. Contemporary heteronormative and LGBTQ readers can still enjoy these beautiful translations and sense some of that divine presence. He wanted his imagination to be fully captured by it, so that anything else would look dull by comparison. To define beauty in only one sense limits the possibilities of beauty itself, disallowing a beautiful potential. The beloved of Sa’di is not a metaphor and certainly not a metaphor for God, neither it is an autobiographical confession about a love affair.The Bible says that God “has made everything beautiful” (Ecclesiastes 3:11), an expression of His remarkable artistic skill and goodness. But because the world is no longer perfect, the Bible warns us against putting too much trust in our appearance, or tying our self-worth to it (1 Peter 3:3-4). To top it all off, God the Creator filled the natural world with wonders, from galaxies to glistening dragonfly wings. This literature does much more than just convey information; it is rhythmic, full of rich metaphors and vivid illustrations, which deepen the reader’s experience. James White, Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry By Domenico Ingenito, Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, May 2023, Pages 257–260, https://doi.

It is not that I would not be friends with someone based on appearance, but as usually one's personality is apparent through presentation to others, I judge on that.Despite this, I like to joke with people that I would not be friends with them if I could not look at them. These authentic women are not only living vaults of practical and spiritual knowledge but also the keepers of cultural diversity, which is fast becoming lost as the global spread of Western uniformity threatens the survival of indigenous cultures and eco-diversity alike. It encourages Christian artists to be even more creative and prolific, and it compels non-artists to consider the artistic gifts and talents God has given them. Second, that Sa’di believes that beauty can transform us from a lower to a higher state, from mud to a rose.