Why Does Reality Sometimes Appear So Beautiful?

"Why do we sometimes perceive reality with such striking beauty? Rupert says: ‘When you experience beauty, what you’re actually experiencing at that moment, you are seeing reality as it truly is. When you’re looking at a mountain or listening to a piece of music, the subject-object relationship that enables you to have that experience, collapses, or at least it loses its veiling power, and in spite of the subject-object relationship, you taste reality as it is . . . The subject-object relationship that enables that experience to be known, it becomes, as it were, transparent, and its reality shines through. And that shining of reality is the experience of beauty or love . . . The mountain, or the tree, or the bowl, it shines first with its reality, being. And only after that do its perceived qualities, color, shape, form, and so on, arise.’"

From event 07 May, 2025 Webinar – Wednesday, 7 May

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