Divine Properties

What is man's connection to the world? It would appear that of all of man's capacities his ability to witness or observe is his most treasured attribute. If one were to study what makes people happy I would expect to see a wide variety of answers. This in part would be due to the diverse nature of how man observes the world. He bases his values upon what he interprets as beauty. Beauty possesses a wide range of characteristics mainly because men as individuals have many different angles from which to gaze. Virtue, often times, is man's attempt to contain or catch beauty. The pursuit of virtue, as stated by Thoreau, brings into focus innocence, sincerity, and truth. Within his limited scope man can easily become delusional by confusing what is visually beautiful as opposed to spiritually beautiful. It is not the mountain or the mountain lion that contains true (spiritual) beauty. It is the connection that allows the mountain to feed the lion and the lion to feed the mountain. Such mechanics in all of man's studies have shown but a glimpse into its operation. Yet still after all of the charting and labeling man cannot explain the reason behind why it all works. To what purpose is our ability to 'see' all of this?