Beauty Is The Path To Enlightenment

Life makes us and molds us into what we believe we need to be.
But is that what we should be?
That is the test in life.
Do we allow the darker parts of our nature to control others and our reality for ego, fame, fortune, or to be remembered?
Too often in life, we fail these critical tests of character. Circumstances pull us in directions that take us off the path that will lead to a greater fulfillment.
There are moments when we come to a powerful reckoning.
There are times that we must choose.
And history always reveals brutal truths, as time passes bye.
We fight between the civilized parts of ourselves and the savagery that lurks in the darkness of our desires. That savage voice believes that to have power one needs to unleash the corrupt forces within and push morality to the side.
In moments we will all … fail.
That is the process of being human.
Those that focus on the beauty in this world and the creation of beautiful things are always the closest to the divine.
Those that continue to fall into the webs of ignorance and hate … have forever tried to destroy those that desire to create beauty, art, passion, and manifestations of love.
Even in the ashes that those hateful souls generate, those pieces that survive … continue to inspire and show us that the paths to enlightenment cannot be separated from those things in this world that are beautiful.

~Suzanne Wagner~