"Beauty is not caused. It is."  

                       ~ Emily Dickinson  

What do you think?

While I believe that Beauty Is, just as Love Is, I also believe that when we tap into the beauty within us, when we act from that place in our hearts, and when we recognize beauty in hidden places, there are effects in the world and in us that we help reveal.

Enough philosophizing (although I think philosophy is beautiful) and on to a few poetic quotes from Emily Dickinson:

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

May we experience sights and sounds, fragrances, words, music, laughter, loving, kindness...beauty in many forms today.

Be Beauty too.

With heart and soul, 
Charlene