What is true beauty?
Can it be defined? Is it something tangible? Or is it is something that everybody can find? Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No, none of these.
Beauty is defined by what beauty does. And because of that idea, beauty is defined by truth. Because beauty is defined by truth, it is objective, as truth is. Beauty is universal.
The phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is false. Saying this implies taste, and aesthetics. Both are merely appealing to one’s senses. True beauty is just appealing. No senses are required to know beauty. However, one must have some kind of input to have a basis for deeming something beautiful. After all, we are sensual beings.
True beauty is something that lacks nothing. And because of this, ugliness is not the opposite of beauty, fragmentation and dis-integration are. Believing that you are and individual, saying that you are apart from “that,” and constantly using the pronoun “I,” are examples of fragmentation. Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
One of the few things that are beautiful is art. Art is a concept, an energy. It flows through us like water through a garden hose. The hose doesn’t know where the water comes from, or where it is going to end up. It just transports the water as far as it can reach.
This energy is intangible and transcendental. This energy is pure and true. When truth reveals itself, so does beauty. We channel the intangible energy to create something tangible. The tangible is a work of art. And if that work was created by the creative energy, and unmodified by our mortal minds, then it can be considered beautiful.
This is just one of the things that can be recognized as beauty. When really, anything that reveals truth, or is truth itself, can be called beautiful. Truth is also transferable. Truth in your words, truth in your thoughts, truth in your feelings, they all show beauty in the fact that they are the truth. However, when we are true to our soul, we are truly showing another level of beauty.
Everyone has the potential to see beauty; however, some lack the understanding of its nature. Because of that, most don’t recognize beauty. They continue to label things that appeal to their sense of sight/sound/smell as beautiful. When really those things are pretty.
And as an additional note, “true beauty” is redundant.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Awe
Awe
In growing older, we experience more. As a result, simple things go unnoticed. The same red ball that brings a child of two endless enjoyment, we kick out of our way, or curse at it when we trip over it in the middle of the night. We cast it away because we are confident we know all about it. It doesn't intrigue us because we are comfortable with it. We curse at it because we are arrogant enough to believe we are better than it. So, what is bad about that? We know what a ball is, right?
When we look into children, we can see their awe. We can see that they are seeing everything for the first time. And we know that everything that they see is raw, and unmodified by pride or prejudiced. Their eyes are always filled with a certain level of wonder and amazement.
In my eyes, a child embodies the one quality that keeps life trudging on. Awe and wonder. At a point in everybody’s life they lose the ability to be awestruck, or just tend to ignore it if they become so.
Being in a constant state of awe allows for people to get a better understanding of things. Look, for just a minute, at the face of a child in awe. Look right at them the minute that they look in wonder at something. Because for that instant, you will see something that you have lost, but something that you can find again.
You don’t see them trying to consciously comprehend, or forcefully understand. You just see them sitting there gazing at it with a totally open mind. And that is perfection. When you look at something without all of the filters that we have built over eyes for the past years of our lives, you see it in truth.
Awe is base in not knowing something. When faced with something you have two options. 1) Forget about it and ignore it, or 2) try to understand it. In trying to understand something, you will always find something new. Furthering your questioning (awe), always searching, eventually you will come across beauty, and then truth.
On the whole, our people understand and have knowledge over a vast many complex things. The point is: no matter how complex a thing is, it is made of simple things at its root.
To go through life without some form of awe will close many doors in understanding life and its complex things. That may not seem important, but if you can't stare at something with awe and amazement, you will miss its simple beauty.
If you look at things through the same eyes as a child you will become receptive to whatever it is showing you, you must let it come to you. That one of the most important parts of the creative process. Receptivity, the enemy of the ego. Denial, the enemy of awe.
In growing older, we experience more. As a result, simple things go unnoticed. The same red ball that brings a child of two endless enjoyment, we kick out of our way, or curse at it when we trip over it in the middle of the night. We cast it away because we are confident we know all about it. It doesn't intrigue us because we are comfortable with it. We curse at it because we are arrogant enough to believe we are better than it. So, what is bad about that? We know what a ball is, right?
When we look into children, we can see their awe. We can see that they are seeing everything for the first time. And we know that everything that they see is raw, and unmodified by pride or prejudiced. Their eyes are always filled with a certain level of wonder and amazement.
In my eyes, a child embodies the one quality that keeps life trudging on. Awe and wonder. At a point in everybody’s life they lose the ability to be awestruck, or just tend to ignore it if they become so.
Being in a constant state of awe allows for people to get a better understanding of things. Look, for just a minute, at the face of a child in awe. Look right at them the minute that they look in wonder at something. Because for that instant, you will see something that you have lost, but something that you can find again.
You don’t see them trying to consciously comprehend, or forcefully understand. You just see them sitting there gazing at it with a totally open mind. And that is perfection. When you look at something without all of the filters that we have built over eyes for the past years of our lives, you see it in truth.
Awe is base in not knowing something. When faced with something you have two options. 1) Forget about it and ignore it, or 2) try to understand it. In trying to understand something, you will always find something new. Furthering your questioning (awe), always searching, eventually you will come across beauty, and then truth.
On the whole, our people understand and have knowledge over a vast many complex things. The point is: no matter how complex a thing is, it is made of simple things at its root.
To go through life without some form of awe will close many doors in understanding life and its complex things. That may not seem important, but if you can't stare at something with awe and amazement, you will miss its simple beauty.
If you look at things through the same eyes as a child you will become receptive to whatever it is showing you, you must let it come to you. That one of the most important parts of the creative process. Receptivity, the enemy of the ego. Denial, the enemy of awe.
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