What makes a beautiful experience?
Is it not the mutually enhancing rightness
of all aspects of the experience?
Is it not the absence of jarring notes,
of events which mar the context in which they occur?
In a beautiful experience, all things happen as they should,
all events blend into one another
and are part of the same composition.
There is a rightness and an appropriateness to anything that happens.
It takes great “skill-in-action” to render experiences beautiful.
Beauty is marred by discord,
and the ‘non-fittingness’ of related events.
A beautified experience occurs when all events
flow naturally and harmoniously into one another.
Creating an arrangement of static beauty,
such as a flower arrangement, or a beautiful work of art,
Is easier than what might be called
‘the art of spontaneous beautification in the flow of time.’
In the first instance,
the creator chooses elements combined to create beauty –
there is control.
In the second instance, there is always uncertainty,
because there is no control
over what will happen, from moment to moment,
in various interpersonal and environmental contexts.
An exquisite alertness and awareness of the moment-to-moment context
is required if the aura of beauty is to be preserved.
Beauty is of the Soul,
and the Soul cannot express when it is obscured by friction.
Skill-in-action requires the alert neutralization
of soul-obscuring frictions.
Those who have skill-in-action know how to utilize dissonance,
and then apply the principle of dissonance resolution
to the beautification of experience,
thus becoming adept in the art of creative living.
Truly, this is the art of living harmoniously with all that lives.
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