Beauty is the sign of the Divine.

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Beauty is the Spirit-light, So bright, it kindles sparks In the heart. Wine and torch are the essence of that blinding light, Beauty is the sign of the Divine.

Source Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, Wine, Torch, and Beauty · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Shabistari, a Persian Sufi poet, wine and torch are images of the inner light, and beauty is the sign of the Divine: a light of the Spirit that kindles sparks in the heart. Today, each time a beauty moves you — a landscape, a gesture, a face —, welcome it as a sign that God is sending you, and let that spark warm the way you speak to others.

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