See the beauty of all before you

Yesterday, Sunday, I took the train to Saint Pancras station, enjoying the walk through and then past the entrance to the magnificent station hotel there. I then crossed Euston Road and walked south past block after block of unremarkable “mansion” blocks as I walked through the university and hospital area into Bloomsbury.

As I walked, though, it was with some child-like anticipation as I knew that the cityscape would suddenly change as the Brunswick building appeared. I then stopped to take the picture above of this, one of my favourite buildings in London, in all of its brutalist beauty.

I then went into the fabulous Curzon cinema at the Brunswick, full of small screening rooms, taking in a three-hour masterpiece, “Drive my Car”, a gloriously slow-paced and simple film that I enjoyed every moment of.

As I left the cinema, I felt a sense of quietude as well as gratefulness for seeing and feeling Beauty.

This quote some it up for me, and I will focus on this as a mantra for presence this year.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you.

The future will take care of itself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Originally published at Tom McCallum.