'Beauty presents itself to us. We do not look for beauty as if it were a static thing waiting to be found. Beauty encounters us. It is the beautiful that initiates, that moves, that captures our attention. We do not make the first step. Beauty, in some sense, seeks us. We may put ourselves in places that leave us open to beauty, but it is the beautiful that acts on us.'
Gregory E Ganssle, Our Deepest Desires, p.74.
