What is it about the colors of a sunset that makes us stop what we're doing and stand in awe?

I think that we are drawn to sunsets because they are beautiful and they come at a time in our day when we have a moment to enjoy them. I used to witness some beautiful sunrises, over the Wasatch Mountains, but I was on my way to work and didn't have the time to stop and breath in the experience.

Have you considered how personal a sunset or sunrise is? We each view it from a slightly different perspective, so we each see a different picture and that is the case even if we are in the same location. Then when you factor in all of the different locations, there are billions of sunrises and sunsets each day. That's a lot of beauty.

They remind me of my favorite foods - watermelon, mangos, pineapple, and passion fruit.

Other than that, I don't know.

Whenever I see a beautiful sunset, I can't help thinking: that looks like a great painting. I want to go home and see if they're showing it on TV. Colors by the NBC peacock. All in the comfort and safety of my state approved housing. I'll sip coffee and fret over the yellows fading to orange, the pinks fading to purple, and the purples fading to night.

Agoraphobia is a terrible master.

Dear heaven. I'm sorry for the erratic support of posters on this site. I want you to know I stopped and took notice of something so very sad. I wish you peace.

It's good. I write about things that I need to exorcise. I have a lot of demons. People here have been very supportive and tolerant towards me. Thanks for your kind thoughts.

I get caught up in the poetry of your writing.

I particularly love sunsets as the sun sinks into the ocean. Nothing like it.

You can almost hear the tsssss when the sun seems to sink into the water.

I wish we had a like button.

Sunsets engage all of your senses in such a way that for a few moments you are forced to connect intimately with yourself--they stop time.

A sensitivity to the air is triggered, to the temperature, to the place, the time-it's not just the colors--it's the depth and the expanse and the feeling down deep that you are part of something bigger, and that time always has an ending and a beginning and yet it doesn't. The sun will be back and will set again but it will never be the same as this one now, compelling you to feel more intricate sensations at once than you thought possible, thereby living your past, present at future all at once.

Or, its just cause they are so spectacularly beautiful. :)

One day I'll see it. :-)

I've seen it lots of times out in the big expanse near Green River UT, even have some awesome photos of it.

I posted this on another thread, and it's so beautiful I'll post it again, even though it's the night sky, with a few sunset clouds thrown in:

http://www.jackfusco.com/Timelapse

In southern Alberta we have some breathtaking sunsets...and sunrise too. I've taken it upon my self to photograph as many as I can with my DSLR...and share them on my facebook page for my friends to see. I also print my favorites on high quality photo paper, mount them and donate them to charities I support for fundraisers.

Ron Burr



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I have a friend who lives in Sonoma county California and she posts lots of pictures of sunsets on Facebook. I'll take a sunset over a religious or political post any day.

wine country girl Wrote:
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> What is it about the colors of a sunset that makes
> us stop what we're doing and stand in awe?

For myself, the sun is the source of life itself, the source of the Earth and all earthly energy. The light that powers us, the colors that nourish our bodies and the bodies of the gross material foods that we eat, the living energy that we inhale as air. The full spectrum of radiations that give life to our whole complex ecosystem.

At sunset, we can look directly at this great giver of life, and absorb the many life-giving, healing radiations it emits. It feeds our inner, spiritual eye with spiritual radiation, and awakens us to our own divinity.

Thank you SUN! OM AUM OM

Enjoyed two weeks worth recently on the beach in Mazatlan, Mexico. I think sometimes it means the end of a busy day.

It's even better when you're with a friend and one of you points and says, "Look!" And you share the entire sunset in silence.

Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset, swiftly flow the days! I can barely stand Utah, but I do have to admit that their sunsets are pretty nice.

There is a restaurant on the beach in Panama City Beach, FL called Schooners. Each evening at sunset, they stop everything, have a ceremony and toast the sunset. It's pretty cool. PCB is unique in that it lies on the panhandle, so you can see both the sunrise and sunset on the beach.

When I was living in Colorado with my boyfriend, I'd oftentimes leave to come back to Utah before the sun came up. Seeing that sun start to rise in my rear view mirror out on that "flat horizon" as I started across Wyoming was absolutely breathtaking.

I saw some amazing sunrises and sunsets on my drives back and forth.

that is a pretty scene.

I always remember an evening many, many years ago in Mendocino, California as I watched the Sun descending below the horizon in the Pacific.. and then the horizon disappeared little by little as darkness fell over the ocean. Magical! :)

It is something we can easily see which puts us in our place. It is giant and beautiful and like an embrace from a parent when we are a small child.

That is what we are, children, tiny specs in an unimaginably complex universe we can't even begin to understand. In someway that is comforting and far less lonely than if we believe we are the masters. I acknowledge that there is more than I can every comprehend and take comfort in that. A sunset or a starry night is far more inspiring than any church service.

Sunsets:
Tinted poems
harmonic visions
bold splashes
shy adieus
Supernal solarium.

Sunsets over the Caribbean are magic. I have never seen enough of them.

Because they are beautiful and there is something in human nature that responds to beauty. Funny that you should post this today because I got my sunset tattoo earlier this evening. I love sunsets because it seems like they always cheer me up after a bad day. Not just with their beauty but with the thought that, as Scarlett O'Hara said "Tomorrow is another day." The bad day is going to end, the sun will come up tomorrow, just keep moving forward, there is always a new start available.

What's not to like about sunsets?

"What's not to like about sunsets?"

Yeah, they're awesome even over TX central plains (even if it doesn't have an ocean, or mountains... sunsets are still great! :)

Sunsets over the water, orcas playing in the pool of gold, the air filled with the smell of lavender, roses, and salt water,purple and pink snow capped mountains.

This is the reason I live on an island in Puget sound.