"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in"

Question

By serendipity this afternoon I came across something so incredibly beautiful it reminded me of this quote from American Beauty. In your travels or your day-to-day life have you ever been somewhere or witnessed something so extremely beautiful it felt almost overwhelming? If so, please share a bit about the experience.

Thx. : )

Answer 1

Yes, I have. Unfortunately I quickly forget those moments :(

Answer 2

God never gives you more than you can handle. It takes a letting go of fear and blame to allow ecstasy to arrive.

Answer 3

This is cheesy - but when I look at my kids.

Answer 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wot35oHby...

try this one!

There are lots of moments like that in my life, but I give myself permision to quicly forget, unfortunately!

The notebook gaveme that feeling!

I mean stories that really move you!

I get moved from yourneys of the mind rather then from Georgraphy!

But someties the sunset can really draw me in, or looking at the ocean from Den Hague, Holland and sitting in those big rocks!

The best think ever, is to get on top of a mountain!

I did so some 12 years ago and have not fogoten it! (Mount Dajti 1640 m)

Just visual imagine this!

Everything stands below you, and you are the highest point! Its an amazing feeling!

How about a garned full of flowers, that might also triger that. Last time I went to Kew Gardens I got to feel that way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQ0j_C_4...

This has done the trick for me some years ago as well!

I remeber I would fel something like hot wax spilling from my heart and melting all over the place! But that was related to my life experience at the time! Powerfull metaphore the picture, and the song powerfull!

Answer 5

The Grand Canyon at sunset

Tahiti

My family on my wedding day

My daughters

Primose Hill on a Sunday

The Sistine Chapel

=)

Answer 6

Yes, and I carry the memory, as fresh and whole today as it was 30 plus years ago.

I was lucky to live for a time in Hawaii. The night sky there is absolutely incredible. With no diffuse light from cities, on the north shore of Oahu, at night, it was like sitting among the stars, being part of the sky. This one particular night, the full moon was so huge, so bright, that I couldn't stop myself from wandering closer and closer to the water, I was so unaware of where I was, so full of the moon. The big difference was...this particular night, there was a sparkling ring around the moon. It looked like billions of diamond chips just glittering and shooting off blue-white sparks. Inside that ring, you could clearly see the "morning" sky...a sky so blue, so perfect, with just the featherfluff hint of clouds, that it looked liked someone had painted it there. I've never seen anything so completely beautiful, so extraordinary.