Wednesday July 21, 2010 at 22:40

43 notes
“You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the vivid, bright, clear, unpolluted snow, the majesty of it drives all your thoughts, your concerns, your problems away. Have you noticed that? You say, ‘How beautiful it is’, and for two seconds perhaps, or for even a minute, you are absolutely silent. The grandeur of it drives away for that second, the pettiness of ourselves. So that immensity has taken us over. Like a child occupied with an intricate toy for an hour; he won’t talk, he won’t make any noise, he is completely absorbed in that. The toy has absorbed him. So the mountain absorbs you and therefore for the second, or the minute, you are absolutely quiet, which means there is no self. Now, without being absorbed by something - either a toy, a mountain, a face, or an idea - to be completely without the me in oneself, is the essence of beauty.
.”

— J. Krishnamurti, the essence of beauty from a talk in Saanen, July 18th 1978 (This is wonderful paynehollow. Thank you.) (via crashinglybeautiful)

This post was reblogged from Crashingly Beautiful.

  1. you-dont-know-where-ive-been reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful and added:
    Beautiful quote.
  2. wildernesses reblogged this from paynehollow
  3. shyofaspark reblogged this from paynehollow
  4. vomsausage reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  5. catherinewillis reblogged this from chutesdimages
  6. chutesdimages reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  7. wildgreenyonder reblogged this from paynehollow
  8. kinestesia reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  9. indelible88 reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  10. jplewis reblogged this from endlessforms
  11. arrogance-is-bliss reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  12. oldgemination reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  13. endlessforms reblogged this from paynehollow
  14. ohjuniper reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  15. crashinglybeautiful reblogged this from paynehollow and added:
    (This is wonderful paynehollow. Thank you.)
  16. paynehollow posted this