When we feel something is beautiful, it is not a matter of beauty or ugliness.
That beauty exists without a counterpart; it is simply just “itself”.



There is no room for words or reasons within it, only a sense of 'beauty' that you've known all along.
It is not something "seen," but something "you see”.



When touched by something beautiful, the ineffable 'whole' that flows ceaselessly through this world, expressed in countless ways across eras and cultures, pours into us through that single fragment.



Soetsu Yanagi emphasized the importance of 'seeing'. He believed that everything begins with having seen beauty, urging a direct gaze, unburdened by preconceptions and knowledge, where beauty reveals itself.



By seeing directly, the boundaries that separate us dissolve, and we become one.
In that moment, we glimpse the enigmatic eternity of beauty, surpassing the confines of time and space.



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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

- Auguries of Innocence, William Blake