<div style="color: #000000;">...one feels such a deep detachment for all things in the world, such a great need to find something else, an imperious need to find something which is truly beautiful, truly fresh, truly good... then, quite naturally, this brings you to a spiritual aspiration.</div>
<div style="color: #000000;"> (The Mother, 9 April 1951)
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/9-april-1951#p18</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">(The Mother...if the seeking is a lasting and major drive in Nature, 9 April 1951)then all these objections and recommendations are futile. For this drive will fulfil itself, this hidden reality will draw and draw us till we achieve it. Those who feel its call, cannot do otherwise than follow and strive, even if need be leave all else for it, hold all other greatness, splendour, nobility, beauty as cheaper minor things compared with this other Light and Greatness and Beauty of which they have had the vision, the intimation, the formless attraction or else the passing touch or glimpse.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p23</ref></div>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/9-april-1951#p18</ref> <div style="color: #000000;">...if the seeking is a lasting and major drive in Nature, then all these objections and recommendations are futile. For this drive will fulfil itself, this hidden reality will draw and draw us till we achieve it. Those who feel its call, cannot do otherwise than follow and strive, even if need be leave all else for it, hold all other greatness, splendour, nobility, beauty as cheaper minor things compared with this other Light and Greatness and Beauty of which they have had the vision, the intimation, the formless attraction or else the passing touch or glimpse.</div> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p23</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...this spiritual bliss is here also in our hearts. It is hidden in from the toil of the surface mind which catches only at weak and flawed translations of it into various mental, vital and physical forms of the joy of existence. But if the mind has once grown sufficiently subtle and pure in its receptions and not limited by the grosser nature of our outward responses to existence, we can take a reflection of it which will wear perhaps wholly or predominantly the hue of whatever is strongest in our nature. It may present itself first as a yearning for some universal Beauty which we feel in Nature and man and in all that is around us; or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">'''we may have the intuition of some transcendent Beauty of which all apparent beauty here is only a symbol'''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. That is how it may come to those in whom the aesthetic being is developed and insistent and the instincts which, when they find form of expression, make the poet and artist, are predominant. </span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p3</ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is when you feel the universal or divine beauty or presence in things that the senses are open to the Divine.