His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Et. Al. — Pursuing Happiness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Beauty and Virtue in the Arabic Language
In the arabic language, the word for beauty and virtue is the same, agoodness. Beauty can deal also with external forms, and it can deal with beauty of the soul within us. To be virtuous is to be beautiful. And that is why, wherever islam men went, It created civilization based on beauty. We're created in beauty. Our soul is drawn beauty. Unhappy is the person who realizes in her beauty, ungesitifit emphasis on being.
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