Do you give joyful attention to the beauty all around you?

I had an answer deleted about beauty but I would still like to share a moment of true beauty I experienced yesterday. I was in a Botanic Gardens watching a one year old child - arms outstretched and walking with that adorable unsteady walk of a new walker - following two pigeons which kept moving just out of his reach. A huge fig tree towered overhead and the filtered sunlight dappled a pattern on the ground all around. The child's mother stood nearby beaming with love. The pigeons grew tired of the persistent pursuit and flew to a nearby pond edge where pink lotus flowers were in full bloom. The child stood motionless - arms still outstretched - gazing towards where he had last seen the pigeons. I was struck with wonder at the profoundly indescribable beauty in this simple moment.



Why is it that when we put our joyful attention into life - into the moment - that life seems to reward us? Is this where freedom lies?

Do you give joyful attention to the beauty all around you?
Yes I gave attention to the beauty around me. I have a coin in my pocket and it has a quote from the book of Psalms. "This is the day the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it."

I read it every day and actually look to the light of day and every day I read it I find some beauty. In a dogs happy tail, a rhubarb poking up through the spring dirt, a beaver's kit in the quarry, and the neighbours kids laughing.

It's all around us isn't it?

I would think that our freedom lies in our own decisions in our lives that guide us to wherever we find ourselves. It's a "free will" to me, this freedom we look for, or already have. The decisions we make (like you finding the beauty in the child with the pigeons) are the ones that give us our sense of freedom. You saw beauty there, someone else would have seen something they can't have, or something to be eschewed, but not you.

You saw a beauty that lay there and you were free to see it, and free to accept it, and free to reject it. You chose to accept it. That's freedom.
Reply:yes, beautiful, thank you. whenever we are conscious and aware in the present moment, when we simply look without labelling, evaluating, judging from past memories, we experience the aliveness and freshness of life. whenever we only look through mind/ thought and label things, all is dry...
Reply:Yes, I do to some extent

You do, because you see the reflection of your own self, your kids/ brother/sister/parents and the place you live in, in every thing around you. I have no other words to describe the kind of love you have within!!!!
Reply:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and God Beholds each and every day of our lives,



through our family and loved ones.



cherish them, and stop telling them you love them, and that they are the most beautiful things in your life.
Reply:Yes, yes.



Because being is about being-in-the-moment. No more cares, no more worries, no more anxieties over anything else.
Reply:~Beautiful~



Peace!
Reply:This is the only joy -- meaning -- freedom -- of life