True Beauty

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.