Approach to beauty

"And how to approach beauty ourselves?"

"It is easy to discourse, but more difficult to admit beauty into life’s household.

But while we ourselves deny entrance to beauty in our life,

what value will all these affirmations possess?

They shall be meaningless banners at an empty hearth.

Admitting beauty into our home,

we must determine the unquestionable rejection of vulgarity and pompousness,

and all which opposes beautiful simplicity."

Source

Roerich Nicholas. ' Star of the Mother of the World.' In Shambhala. © Copyright 1930.

Nicholas Roerich Museum. n.p. n.d. Web. Accessed October 14, 2012. <http://www.roerich.org/nr.html?mid=wrtgs>.