The word “beauty” like so many words in language has more than one meaning. Arguments rage, over what kind of beauty is truly beautiful. Is real beauty expressed in the form of attractive healthy human bodies, or should we only think of deeper human traits – that are expressions of our hearts and souls – as truly beautiful?
Inside of our own minds we clash with commercial agendas that hypnotize us and narrow our definitions by leveraging the fact that we all want to be loved and that we all want to be experienced as beautiful. Struggling to wake up from the hypnosis of commercial culture we wrestle with concepts and standards. This struggle for ‘beauty’ blinds so that it gets harder and harder to see, beauty’s most true and precious aspect.
If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, that means that you are the heart, mind, spirit and soul that brings beauty into the world. Beyond all words, beyond all definitions, and far beyond the meaningless arbitrary setting of standards, you as the beholder are the spring from which all beauty flows into being.
As your truest experience of beauty rises above the cloudy conflict of standardized definitions, and looks at the world and other human beings in the clear light of day, can you rediscover what aspects of humanity and yourself you hold as beautiful?
What do you celebrate in yourself and others when you transcend the war over beauty? Are you free to enjoy the attractive beauty of health and miraculous symmetry, even as you are also moved – sometimes to tears – by the infinite and subtle depths of beauty found within each and every human being.
Can you appreciate the esthetic elegance and beauty of a human form in the peak of it’s athletic youthful bloom, even as you celebrate the profound and miraculous beauty of an entire human lifespan?
When we abandon the war cultural war between the surface beauty we see on the outside and the beauty that you (and all of us embody) on the inside. There is an opportunity to leave the argument of definitions and standards behind.
All we must do is to look inside to reclaim human beauty for it truly is and discover the inarguable truth that beauty is simply not a standard, it’s an experience.
Liberate your experience of human beauty so that you may enjoy what you enjoy, love what you love and behold yourself as the beautiful vehicle through which all of your experiences of beauty are born.