Learn to be quiet in the midst of turmoil,
for quietness is the end of strife and this
is the journey to peace.
~ ACIM
To the medieval thinker beauty was not a value independent of others, but rather the radiance of truth, the splendor of ontological perfection, and that quality of things which reflects their origin in God. Light and luminous objects, no less than musical consonance, conveyed an insight into the perfection of the cosmos, and a divination of the Creator.