Most human beings are rather sluggish; they rather like to live in their old patterns, in their particular habits of thought. Anything new they reject because they think it is much better to live with the known rather than with the unknown.
When there is total absence of yourself, beauty is. But we are not free of ourselves; we are selfish people, concerned with ourselves, with our importance or with our problems, with our agonies, sorrows, and loneliness.