The object is subjectively determined as qualified or unqualified to evoke these universal sentiments within the human heart...often swelling to the point of causing a pain in the breast that is nearly unbearable.
Some have said we are created as hedonists, with much of life being a battle for the object of fulfillment. Self, sex, substances, success, simulated realities, sensational highs and a myriad of things compete for stage time. The ugly composite of things we allow to possess our hedonistic heart greatly shape the sources of experiences we associated with beauty. Yet, beauty cries out to something cosmically timeless, intrinsically ethereal, a vapor that in one sense is touchless and in another so weighty that it threatens to destroy us if fully experienced.
What things awaken you to the core of your being like an ancient echo in your ear?
What objects stir you to secretly want to abandon all pursuits and just...be?
What moments represent a bouquet of overwhelming beauty scents permanently embedded within your memory?
What makes up your hedonistic buffet line - because you are a hedonist...the question is what is supplying satisfaction to your engine of desire!
I am indeed a hedonist (seriously, no doubt about it)...too many years of buying, eating, entertaining myself to believe otherwise...but I am finding that the best way to quench the desire is to give it away...
ReplyDelete"...for it is more blessed to give than receive..."
davide