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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divine-working-in-the-universe#p6</ref>
<div style="color: #000000;">For all joy, beauty, love, peace, delight are out-flowings from the Ananda Brahman,—all delight of the spirit, the intellect, the imagination, aesthetic sense, ethical aspiration and satisfaction, action, life, the body. And through all ways of our being the Divine can touch us and make use of them to awaken and liberate the spirit. </div><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p4</ref></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Spiritual beauty has a contagious power. Beauty is the joyous offering of Nature.</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p1</ref>
<div style="color: #000000;">It is the soul in us which turns always towards Truth, Good and Beauty, because it is by these things that it itself grows in stature; the rest, their opposites, are a necessary part of experience, but have to be outgrown in the spiritual increase of the being.</div><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-and-remedy-of-falsehood-error-wrong-and-evil#p14</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">There is this beauty, this dignity of soul—a thing about which I am very sensitive. It is a thing that moves me and evokes in me a great respect always.</div>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p39</ref>
<div style="color: #000000;">It [aesthetic conscience] is the consciousness of beauty. Aesthetic means that which concerns beauty, art. There are people, for example, who move around in life and see landscapes, see people and things and have absolutely no sense of whether it is beautiful or not; and into the bargain, it makes no difference at all to them. They look at the sky, see whether there are any clouds, whether it will rain or be clear, for instance; or whether the sun is hot or the wind cold. But there are others—when they raise their eyes and look at a beautiful sky, it gives them pleasure, they say, "Oh! It is fine today, the sunrise is lovely today, the sunset is beautiful, the clouds have fine shapes." So, the first kind do not have an aesthetic conscience, the second have.</div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 1 June 1955)</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/1-june-1955#p3 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/1-june-1955#p3</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">...from the supramental point of view beauty and harmony are as important as any other expression of the Divine. But they should not be isolated, set up apart from all other relations, taken out from the ensemble; they should be one with the expression of life as a whole. People have the habit of saying, "Oh, it is an artist!" as if an artist should not be a man among other men but must be an extraordinary being belonging to a class by itself, and his art too something extraordinary and apart, not to be confused with the other ordinary things of the world. </div>