“In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind.”
This quote by the French writer, Blaise Pascal, can be a phrase to live by.
Whether you have recently lost your job, feel discouraged by the lack of developments in your job search or you’re just having a bad day, you may need something else to focus on instead of your bad luck or troubling circumstances.
In his book, Beauty, Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue talks about the essential place of beauty in our lives. O’Donohue, in a voice that is confident and inviting, states that beauty “stirs passion and urgency in us”, and “awakens the heart.”
If you were to embrace the notion that summoning, or merely noticing beauty in your life, would transform your day or a difficult moment, what would you focus on?
Think simple or extravagant beauty, go on a hunt or turn your head to notice something, the choice is yours. You need only shift your attention and see what new perspective this might stir in you.
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