Seeing Beauty Everywhere

There was a busker playing his violin just outside the Washington DC metro station. He was just wearing normal busker clothes. He was playing one of the most expensive violins ever and some of the most beautifully composed music from the most talented artists and talented composers. The funny thing, a thousand and ninety-seven people walked past and barely anyone noticed it, barely anyone really connected, and barely anyone was really engaged. In just under an hour away, he'd accrued about just over thirty dollars and that's not a bad amount for a busker but the fascinating thing was that just a week before he'd sold out an arena for $100 per seat.

 

This was actually a social experiment conducted by the Washington DC post which showed, do we miss beauty when we see it unexpectedly. Are we not able to observe beauty, observed talent? Is it that we miss the most amazing things in the world just because we don't see them on television or they're not presented to us in a certain format or in a certain package or in a certain box.

I believe you should focus your life on observing the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. We miss the sparks of brilliance, we miss the choice of nature, we miss the blooming of flowers, and we miss all of these sensations.

 

Reducing our pace of life doesn't mean becoming slower or less ambitious. It actually means that we take out more time to regenerate, rejuvenate and re-energize ourselves. And the challenge is that we often confuse the noise of our ego with the voice of intuition. But actually the more we tune now of the space we're in, we can tune into that intuition. We can actually find, how we can be guided and navigate life because the egos have little ears and that means that we can't hear properly. Because the truth is everything has beauty, everything has life, everything has energy but we just don't have the eyes to see it, we don't have the eyes to perceive it, we don't have the eyes to appreciate it. But we can have those, we can actually develop inside, we can actually develop new ways of looking at things simply by becoming more attentive, simply by becoming more mindful, simply by becoming better observers of reality rather than participants.

 

 

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Joshua Bell plays in the Washington DC Metro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gti4JFwP_o

 

 

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