Is Magnificence Energy?. It’s sophisticated. | by Jeff Miller | Jan, 2025


Is magnificence intrinsic? Or is it the human mind that makes it appear that manner? All Picture Credit: Jeff Miller

It’s sophisticated.

Famed Seventeenth-century English naturalist John Ray as soon as wrote that “magnificence is energy.”

If that’s true, the query is why magnificence, nevertheless we outline it, has such a strong impact. Furthermore, why does the sense of experiencing magnificence typically really feel the identical, whether or not we’re watching a toddler’s sleeping face or a stunning sundown?

I don’t faux to have the solutions. However I hope that our capacity to acknowledge and respect fantastic thing about all types is an indication of one thing deeper, a set off that calls for us to, because the Twentieth-century American writer Willa Cather wrote, “imprison for a second the shining, elusive second which is life itself.”

Maybe that’s the supply of magnificence’s energy and why, when you’re like me, you will discover it in all places, from nature and music to structure, artwork, patterns, and gesture — to call only some examples.

Does that make magnificence’s energy an antidote to the unfolding horrors of life? Possibly not. However within the transient transcendence it affords, magnificence’s energy stops time and in that dazzling nullity, enraptures and calms.

Within the pictures that comply with, I spotlight a few of the Cather-like moments that made me take into consideration the sophisticated nature of magnificence’s energy whilst I used to be taking pleasure in its diverse expression.

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