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Auburn - I love your description: A precious sadness, a soothing lowliness. Beauty in the face of the insurmountable or transient...

There's something deeply touching about beauty that breaks your heart as it inspires you.. beauty of this sort seems worthy of admiration, in a way. It is that which is unreachable and unfathomable, causing one's soul to reach toward it in vain until it feels that your desire and your heart along with it have been ripped from you and extinguished into an inescapable stillness. There is a humbleness felt when faced with this kind of beauty, an acknowledgement of the small, finite nature of one's self and our inability to comprehend or to preserve.

@quove - What you say here reminds me very much of something Richard Feynman said:



I think, I can see it from both points of view. On the one hand, there is something very perfect about the existence of a thing as it is without outside intervention. It seems in a way that dissecting the manifestations of nature disrupts some of the nuanced truths of their form. At the least, it extinguishes the reality of their wholeness, of the finely balanced relationship between their elements; which is something quite worth acknowledgement in itself. However, I agree with Feynman that there is beauty to be found at all levels of a phenomenon. I think Ti revels in the act of dissection, and I do find a certain beauty and exhilaration in the perception of the intricate whole truth of a thing, which is gained through analysis of each of its parts and deduction of its fundamental principles. Being limited in our abilities to perceive, unfortunately it seems we can't have both of these fulfillments at once; appreciation for the whole and understanding of what makes up the whole.