ASTOUNDING BEAUTY

 

ASTOUNDING BEAUTY - Sometimes beauty - especially natural beauty - can astound us, stop us in our tracks, or leave us breathless.  Many - such as poets Rumi, Hafiz, and the Preacher of Ecclesiastes - attribute all beauty to God, the Creator.  Hafiz proclaimed, "God's beauty has split me wide open."  We cannot help but wonder what the poet meant.  But having read many of Hafiz's poems, I can say with confidence that Hafiz had a deep and profound mystical faith that opened his eyes, ears, mind, and heart to the beauties of life around him, in which he saw the Divine.