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Is The Mystic’s Bliss A Flower In The Sky?
An ordinary human being has a chance to enjoy bliss.
I have experienced memorable ecstasy from viewing or contemplating the sublime forms of nature and reading sublime poetry. They are an inexhaustible source of inspiration and aesthetic delight.
A.C.Bradley, the literary critic, lists some examples of sublimity. “The vault of heaven, one expanse of blue, or dark and studded with countless and prodigiously distant stars; the sea that stretches to the horizon and beyond it, a surface smooth as glass or breaking into innumerable waves; time, to which we can imagine no beginning and no end, — these furnish favourite examples of sublimity, and to call them great seems almost mockery, for they are images of immeasurable magnitude.”
Again, in the words of A.C.Bradley:
“It is not in the quality alone, but in the quantity of the quality, that the sublimity lies.”
Sublimity is the loftiest form of beauty in nature and life.
To be sublime, a thing or quality is required invariably to be of unmeasured or unmeasurable quantity, size, or strength. A huge ancient tree, a lion, an eerie silence, a mother’s love for her child, the vast darkness, the starry sky, and so on are sublime and evoke joy in our minds when we sense…
