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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
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| WHY THIS WEBSITE EXISTS: To share and stimulate thought and insight on life issues we can relate to. |
| Quotes: For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. - Ivan Panin In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. - Alexis Carrel Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. - Helen Keller The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: What characteristic do you most commonly associate with what you appreciate as beautiful and excellent? a) physical, material, i.e., good-looking person or an item I want to shop for and buy. b) natural scenery, i.e., enjoying different outdoor places that display the earth's varied features. c) personal qualities, i.e., personality and character of a person I observe and appreciate. d) relational, i.e., experiencing friendships and deep relationships. e) transcendent and philosophical in nature, i.e., holding onto truth and meaning, religious system of beliefs, faith in Supernatural Being. f) other |
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| Some reflection questions on beauty & excellence: 1) What comes to your mind most often when you're thinking of something beautiful and excellent? 2) Do you tend to think of beauty as a physical quality or as an intangible quality? If you say both, do you tend to have a greater degree of appeal and affection toward one over the other in a given instance? 3) Are there universal qualities of beauty that would agree to everyone's desire, impression or taste? Or is beauty simply subjective in nature? 4) Does your experience and enjoyment of what you find beautiful and excellent tend to be long-lasting or short-lived? |
| LSC's BASEMENT: For this month, here's another one of my favorites: the best movie I saw in 2003 was Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| Thank you for checking out my website this month. The topic for August is the question, What do you see as beautiful and excellent? This has to do with what you seek and love as a big and main attraction in life - something you cherish deeply and have an aesthetic appeal toward. Lik-See, 08-18-04 As a working definition, I see beauty and excellence as the qualities which elicit the most pleasure in you.by you seeing and experiencing the very thing you find beautiful and excellent. *It can mean being in a loving relationship with someone who knows your flaws but still cares and accepts you - confirming in your heart that there can be something much more beautiful in a person than physical appearances. *It can mean watching a majestic, towering home-run soar into the night sky in the bottom of the ninth as the home crowd cheers over the final score. *It can mean watching a gushing, powerful waterfall descend and crashes at the bottom, creating an ethereal mist of vapor, punctuated by nature's curved array of colors cast forth by the sun's rays. *It can mean standing awestruck inside a European cathedral with its architectural ceiling seemingly stretching to the far reaches of the stratrosphere, as the gleam of sunlight through the stain-glass windows highlights the etched artistry from several centuries ago. *It can mean looking up on a clear, still night at the stars and constellations light years away, and just feeling small and insignficant compared to the vast expanse of the galaxy - let alone the universe. *It can mean that maybe there is a beauty out there far bigger and more breathtaking than you've ever imagined, yet hope that someday you'll experience. |
| beauty. def. The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality. |
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