“Beauty is so precious the enjoyments it gives are so refined and pure, so congenial with our tenderest and noblest feelings, and so akin to workship, that it is painful to think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it as if, instead of the fair earth and glorious sky, they were living in a dungeon.”–William Ellery Channing
There was a great story about two men in a hospital room. One had the window view of the outside world while the other was so ill he couldn’t raise himself from his bed to look out. He had to rely on the man by the window to describe what was happening outside the window. Out the window is a beautiful scene of nature and people enjoying the great outdoors. When the man by the window passes on, the other man requests that he be moved by the window so he can see everything that was described to him. He finds, after he painfully raises himself up, that the window faced the blank wall of another building and the man who occupied the bed describing the trees and the grass swaying in the afternoon breeze was actually blind.
Helen Keller believed, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
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Don Jackson
