During moments when the lighting is just perfect for photography, I perceive a corresponding inner sense of perfection as well. This experience of perfection brings a profound sense of balance, a realization that an external perfection - in this case, the brilliance and restfulness of a Saturday afternoon spent in a sunny mountain meadow - AND the internal perfection of a love-filled gaze, exist in complete harmony. This balance might also be described as beauty. In the Navajo language, the word Hozho translates into English as beauty, perfection, and balance, underscoring the fact that beauty is both aesthetic AND moral. During times when a balance between a loving attitude in the perceiver and the radiant goodness present in the perceived manifests itself, there exists simultaneously an aesthetic sense of beauty AND the moral sense that everything is as it should be. These times are a true gift, for they point to the reality of perfection and beauty that are present - though often unperceived - within the heart of EVERY moment of our lives. Photo: Lichen rocks, a meadow, aspen trees and an outcrop; Elkhorn Creek Trail, Red Feather Lakes, CO; October 26, 2013
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 03:25:49 +0000
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