Teaching Loveliness Back In

Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.

A cup becomes a cup again when you hold it slowly. A breath becomes a breath again when you count it. The world doesn't lose its beauty; we lose the habit of noticing. Kinnell isn't asking for transformation. He's asking for return. What you loved once, your hands remember. What moved you before, your eyes can find again. Not by seeking something new, but by meeting what's already here with the full weight of your attention.