Shadow Is the Haunt of Beauty

Music: Goldberg Variations, Aria
By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Lory Werths.

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Shadow is the haunt of beauty. Ecstasy closes the eyes. The light illumines only a disguise; Halfway out the door is truth. Listening does not imply sound; Offering does not imply need. Reason edits more than it reveals. Readiness is a way of seeing. After the word, there is the being; Inside the word, the thing itself kneels. Nothingness the earth, the word is the seed: Each person, each thing, each moment a wound.