“Embodied souls can acclimate to a life of discipline, even if taste for worldly pleasures persists. By knowing a higher taste, all other interests abate.” Bhagavad Gita 2.59 For his acts of greed, Zeus’s mortal son, Tantalus, was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree. Whenever

“Of secret things, I am silence.” Bhagavad Gita 10.38 If Krishna describes himself as silence among secret things, it is not because he hides himself from us; rather, it is because he cannot be seen with material eyes. The alternative way of seeing divinity is through eyes of love. The great

“Know truly: that which pervades the body does not die. Nothing can destroy the imperishable soul.” Bhagavad Gita 2.17 The Nike of Samothrace, ancient Greece’s goddess of victory, is celebrated in this renowned sculpture known as “Winged Victory.” She embodies not only ideal beauty but action and triumph, a fusion

Completed in 1902, the six-foot-tall sculpture “The Thinker” by August Rodin portrays Italian poet Dante Alighieri in front of the gates of hell, pondering “The Divine Comedy,” his three-part epic journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Guided first by the Roman poet Virgil and later by his idealized beloved Beatrice,

“As the soul passes in this body from infancy to youth to old age, at death the soul passes into yet another body. Such changes do not bewilder those of steady mind.” Bhagavad Gita 2.13 Woman with a Pearl NecklaceVermeer (c. 1664) Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) has painted a girl

“For those who see Me in everything and see everything in Me, I am never lost—nor are they ever lost to Me.” Bhagavad Gita 6.30 Sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) collected rocks and shells and studied their holes and hollow spaces, searching for what he called nature’s invisible “principles of form and