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Aesthetic appreciation of art productions, no less than harmonious rapport with Nature, leads us nearer and nearer to the divine in us, until our inner being is wholly absorbed in its ecstatic joy or unutterable peace.
9.14.1.6Anyone who is susceptible to beauty in music or place has a spiritual path ready-made for him.
9.14.1.10One of life's objectives is to develop in us these aesthetic feelings, for they lead to the Overself.
9.14.1.37A work of art which awakens in its beholder or hearer or reader a deep feeling of reverential worship or inner strength or mental tranquillity thereby gives him a blessing. It enables him to share the artist's inspiration.
9.14.1.39Beauty is one side of reality which attracts our seeking and our love. But because it is so subtle and our perceptions are so gross, we find it first in the forms of art and Nature, only last in the pure immaterial being of the intangible reality.
9.14.1.45To deny spiritual worth to art because it is created to meet physical sense is shortsighted. It starts with the physical response but, in its highest form, it transcends that level. Beethoven set as his loftiest mission the exaltation of man to a harmony with sacred ideals, to joy in the triumph of good over evil, to peace and goodwill on earth. Bach comes near him in certain works which are more specifically concerned with religious themes, whereas Beethoven was more favourable to humanitarian ones.
9.14.1.60It is true that men learn through disappointment and develop through suffering. But this need not cause us to forget that they also learn and develop through joy and beauty.
9.14.1.62Through art man can create images of those qualities and attributes he finds in the Overself: its beauty, its order, its intelligence. Whether these images come through the medium of music or painting, of sculpture or poetry, they may bring their audience into a mood, a glimpse, or a thought closer to their source.
9.14.1.68All rare and inspired art is to be received as the Overself's voice uttering a message and calling us back to our true homeland.
9.14.1.107When Nature's beauty or man's art moves you deeply, be grateful for their help and appreciate their service. But do not stop there. Use them as aids to transcend your present level and come closer to the god within you.
9.14.1.111The technique of art is important, but the mission of art--to communicate and awaken the intuitive feeling of Beauty--is still more important.
9.14.1.137Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self.
9.14.1.154Behind the work of a poet or composer true to art’s higher mission is this hidden power of his own higher self. It bestows the inspiration which permeates his work.
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