#beatitude

[thirdity]

I wanted to make that happiness eternal through the intermediary of the objectification of the word. Right afterwards I went to look up in the dictionary the word beatitude which I hate as a word and saw that it means spasm of the soul. It speaks of calm happiness — I would however call it transport or levitation.

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[majestativa]

DOROTHY LAMOUR

[peaceinthestorm]

Constant Montald (1862-1944, Belgian) ~ Beatitude, 1893

[Source: invaluable.com]

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Verse of the Day - Matthew 5:10

[begottaum]

“You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the likeness of imperishable beauty, the imprint of true divinity, the recipient of beatitude, the seal of the true light. When you turn to him you become that which he is himself.”

 - Gregory of Nyssa, “Second Homily on the Song of Songs”

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[revolutionoftenderness]

“Get a radio or a phonograph capable of the most extreme loudness possible, and sit down to listen to a performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony or of Schubert’s C-Major Symphony. But I don’t mean just sit down and listen. I mean this: Turn it on as loud as you can get it. Then get down on the floor and jam your ear as close into the loudspeaker as you can get it and stay there, breathing as lightly as possible, and not moving, and neither eating nor smoking nor drinking. Concentrate everything you can into your hearing and into your body. You won’t hear it nicely. If it hurts you, be glad of it. As near as you will ever get, you are inside the music; not only inside it, you are it; your body is no longer your shape and substance, it is the shape and substance of the music.

[…] Beethoven said a thing as rash and noble as the best of his work. By my memory, he said: ‘He who understands my music can never know unhappiness again.’ I believe it.”

—James Agee, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"

[Beethoven Listening to a Muse, 1920 - Ludovic Alleaume]

• Ludovic Alleuame (1859-1941), was born in Angers, France in 1859. He studied with Hérbert and Luc-Oliver Merson at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. More: http://www.papillongallery.com/sold/ludovic_alleaume.html

• Ludwig van Beethoven was a German pianist and composer widely considered to be one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. His innovative compositions combined vocals and instruments, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet. More: https://www.biography.com/musician/ludwig-van-beethoven

• James Agee was impressed by the notion that other human beings idiosyncratically are what they are, in every ornery fibre. Flesh, bone, desire, consciousness—in almost every way, the farmers were different from him and therefore obdurate in their singleness and as capable of pleasure and misery as he. A young couple sitting on a porch and staring at Agee had in their eyes “so quiet and ultimate a quality of hatred, and contempt, and anger, toward every creature in existence beyond themselves, and toward the damages they sustained, as shone scarcely short of a state of beatitude.” More: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/01/09/a-famous-man/amp

[bigcatslions]

Photography Ana Zinger

“Beatitude”

Serengeti National Park, National park in Tanzania

[rynn-jacobs]

Okay, now you can go. Thank you for the bullshit.