For most of us, beauty is in something, in a building, in a cloud, in the shape of a tree, in a beautiful face. Is beauty "out there," or is it a quality of mind that has no self-centered activity? Because, like joy, the understanding of beauty is essential in meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Meditations by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau, editor