Making ourselves fully available
When we have made ourselves fully available to our neighbor and to God, becoming emptied in the process, then at last we begin to live.
To the medieval thinker beauty was not a value independent of others, but rather the radiance of truth, the splendor of ontological perfection, and that quality of things which reflects their origin in God. Light and luminous objects, no less than musical consonance, conveyed an insight into the perfection of the cosmos, and a divination of the Creator.