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Awakening to Beauty

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March / April 2005
John O'Donohue Kosmos 
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This is the fecund Field of Springtime within a culture, the one field where the seeds of true beginning can germinate. We need to refine our attention and purify our urgency to make ourselves worthy to enter there. When we do, caricature and hatred of the Other begin to melt away and we are able to meet in our difference, without fear and threat. Otherwise, the lethal pendulum of attack and counterattack will prevail and destroy us all. Imagine the harvest of possibility that would open if the West could attend to the neglected and forgotten creative subconscious of Islam and China -- that Field of Springtime where the beauty of Islam and China await to enrich us all. Beauty is another order, a deeper level. When we allow ourselves under the persuasion of beauty, our encounter gains integrity, and integrity is the heart of integration, which is the gift we most desperately need now.

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Excerpted from Kosmos (Fall/Winter 2004), a magazine that explores 'global awakening.' Subscriptions: $16/yr. (2 issues) from Box 2102, Lenox, MA 01240; www.kosmosjournal.org.

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