Vesnické obrázky – Pittnerová Vlasta (2020)

More than a hundred-year-old stories, once published in the magazine Lada and gathered in this book, testify not only to the loves, worries, and pains of our ancestors. They also demonstrate that love for nature can be a precursor to love for people, a source of a positive relationship with the world. That relationship, which seems to be fading from our lives today: Beauty is harmony. Those who want to live beautifully must cultivate that harmony of life, thoughts, and feelings in their soul and heart, which creates the spiritual beauty from which happiness blooms. Beauty does not reside solely in wealth, does not love luxury, does not seek the limelight, but like a violet, seeks out hidden spots. Beauty can settle just as comfortably in a simple cottage as in beautifully furnished apartments, from which it often flees and retreats from tastelessness. Those who have fallen in love with beauty in nature can also create beauty in their soul in life, in every action of theirs, thus bringing happiness to themselves and others. And in the beauty of the soul, our entire life is then reflected. We feel more nobly, perceive more deeply, and judge more rightly.