culion sphere.. check our own eco-tourism from balala around the isla culion.. sand island - bugor reef - quaming - balanga falls - galoc - longest beach - passing mangroves - watch china sea sunset - halsey bay & mangroves - alaba island - rock island dikabayutot - calupitpit - banana island - malcapuya - cheron 1 & 2 - fort culion & museum - agila landmark - gitna - pula at puting lupa - cabulihan farm resort - cabulihan mangroves kayaking... etc cheers :-)
"Man can live without science, he can live without bread, but without beauty he could no longer live, because there would no longer be anything to do to the world. The whole secret is here…"
Saint Augustine who fell in love with beauty and sang its praises, wrote these words: "Therefore we are to see a certain vision, my brethren, that no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived: a vision surpassing all earthly beauty, whether it be that of gold and silver, woods and fields, sea and sky, sun and moon, or stars and angels…
"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures." Beauty pulls us up short, but in so doing it reminds us of our final destiny, it sets us back on our path, fills
us with new hope, gives us the courage to live to the full the unique gift of life. The quest for beauty that I am describing here is clearly not about escaping into the irrational or into mere aestheticism...
Simone Weil wrote: "In all that awakens within us the pure and authentic sentiment of beauty, there, truly, is the presence of God. There is a kind of
incarnation of God in the world, of which beauty is the sign. Beauty is the experimental proof that incarnation is possible. For this reason all art of the first order is, by its nature, religious."
The way of beauty leads us, then, to grasp the Whole in the fragment, the Infinite in the finite, God in the history of humanity…
"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence"
Saint Augustine who fell in love with beauty and sang its praises, wrote these words: "Therefore we are to see a certain vision, my brethren, that no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived: a vision surpassing all earthly beauty, whether it be that of gold and silver, woods and fields, sea and sky, sun and moon, or stars and angels…
"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures." Beauty pulls us up short, but in so doing it reminds us of our final destiny, it sets us back on our path, fills
us with new hope, gives us the courage to live to the full the unique gift of life. The quest for beauty that I am describing here is clearly not about escaping into the irrational or into mere aestheticism...
Simone Weil wrote: "In all that awakens within us the pure and authentic sentiment of beauty, there, truly, is the presence of God. There is a kind of
incarnation of God in the world, of which beauty is the sign. Beauty is the experimental proof that incarnation is possible. For this reason all art of the first order is, by its nature, religious."
The way of beauty leads us, then, to grasp the Whole in the fragment, the Infinite in the finite, God in the history of humanity…
"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence"