Posts Tagged ‘true beauty’

The concept of beauty has been painfully distorted in our culture. Gone are the days where beauty truly was in the eye of the beholder, defined by a person’s character and not the number of abs showing. Now we have entered into an era in which women especially are exposed daily to everybody else’s definition of beauty. The shallow few have sadly managed to define the rules that govern the beauty of the many and as such the many find themselves depressed, flipping through the pages of fashion and men’s health magazines alike idolizing a skin deep beauty which often only masks the lack of any form of inner beauty.

So what does this mean you ask. If we live in a culture which has corrupted the idea of beauty then what is true beauty? What is inner beauty and why has it been relegated to the backseat of the car where it can be ignored by us and poked by it’s mean oversized step-brother outer beauty? It is in losing the definition of inner beauty that we have lost our ability to develop it. As our culture has allowed outer beauty – a fluid concept at best – to become the sole judge of a person’s character the development of those qualities that make a person truly beautiful, the same qualities which make up and define inner beauty, has been completely ignored and cast off to the wayside.

To define inner beauty – ironically a rather undefinable thing – we must realize that inner beauty is what makes up what we think of as “real beauty”. When you speak to a person or interact with them for any amount of time you can sense inner beauty just as you can sense the lack of it in a person you “just know” is an unkind person. Inner beauty is a person’s character, their joys, loves, pains and sorrows all wrapped up in a package unique to each person’s life experiences. This is why a person who has never worked for anything in their life, somebody lacking in true life experience or the desire for it cannot be truly beautiful no matter how sculpted their body or face.

Inner beauty is the sum total of every lesson a person has learned throughout their life, be it short or long. The sum total of every mistake they have ever made and every success they have ever boasted has shaped their inner person, the person they often hide from others covering it up with a mask they feel will be accepted by a twisted culture. That person inside is the one who is ultimately beautiful, and it is when this person is allowed to come to the surface, to shine through the persons eyes and in their every action that we can mash together the ideas of inner and outer beauty into a complete, beautiful person.

Forgetting that beauty is something that comes from the inside and eventually runs over into outer beauty has led to us idolizing many pretty colorful empty cups. Remembering that fact can, will, and has been leading to the re-discovery of those full cups who inspire us to develop the inner beauty that may be missing in our own lives.

There is material beauty.
There is intellectual beauty.
There is metaphysical beauty.
There is spiritual beauty.
Every society and people have their ideals of beauty, and their philosophies of beauty.
Others challenge these ideals and these philosophies of beauty.
True beauty is a metaphysical ideal. Beauty.

There is material beauty.
There is intellectual beauty.
There is metaphysical beauty.
There is spiritual beauty.
Every society and people have their ideals of beauty, and their philosophies of beauty.
Others challenge these ideals and these philosophies of beauty.
True beauty is a metaphysical ideal. Beauty.

- WHAT DEFINES BEAUTY? -

What defines beauty? That is such a large question; External beauty is transient as a passing breeze. Yet true beauty from within will never age. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety”. Therefore I feel that a person’s true beauty is internal and not external. Beauty’, influenced from the old Latin word ‘beatus’, meaning, happy, blessed. Not physically beautiful, but beautiful in characteristics. That is how I define beauty.-

You could define beauty as a flick of the hair, a graceful move, a slender frame. These things are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, but they are superficial qualities of no real consequence. They have impact of that I’m sure. But they have no sustaining importance. They are purely on the surface and have no depth. True beauty is deep within the psyche, the soul, the character, the very being of the person. -

What defines beauty? A beautiful face; But a beautiful face with no true self behind it, is not really beautiful. It is a hollow shell. It is the qualities of the person that define beauty. A true soul, compassion, selflessness, and unawareness of the beauty itself that display true beauty; A genuine and caring nature with no regard to the self defines true beauty for me. Is beauty not visual, but merely a conceptual elegance, as so perceived by mathematicians? Certainly in looking at aesthetically pleasing composition of features, mathematics is involved in the makeup.

Image gives forth the beauty but with nothing behind the pleasing appearance how could it be described as beautiful. It is one dimensional and therefore has no real importance. To be Spirituality ethereal is indeed to be beautiful. To display qualities of kindness and true caring are infinitely more beautiful than just a pretty face with perfect features. We like to look at a beautiful person because their features are mathematically in perfect harmony and proportion, therefore what we see is visually very pleasing, so yes, it is beauty, but not of the lasting kind. Fate has been kind to a beautiful woman and it can definitely help in life to be beautiful. People are drawn to beauty, they want to look at it, admire it, touch it, but this type of beauty is fleeting and it can disappear in the blink of an eye.

To define beauty is like trying to describe life itself. It’s very hard to put your finger on. I see beauty in buildings, churches and cathedrals. In defining their beauty it would be for their architecture, their pleasing lines, they do not have human qualities but they do possess character and soul. Beauty is elusive and beauty is cruel. How would I define it ultimately? A summer’s day? A perfect sunset? A babies smile? An act of compassion. Who knows! In the end I feel that beauty, like poetry is best left alone and simply appreciated and not analysed or defined. After all beauty is in the eye of the beholder so who is to say what defines beauty. -

Bueaty is something we all see and know. Though what is beauty is it only skin deep? Is it truly in the eye of the beholder? Is it the inner beauty we are suppose to see? I say yes it is all of these. The outside pulls our eyes toward it. Then in your eyes we behold the beauty we see before us. Then hopefully we get to know the beauty who has inner beauty as well. Beauty fades with time expect for the one who first saw it beholding it with their eyes. It does not matter if you are a man or a woman. Thought men are more prone to beauty. Women can see beauty, however men do not liked to be called such. What ever it is that beauty is. It is something we all look for in a mate. If they do not set off that spark in you. If their beauty is not enough to catch your attention then it will not really get anywhere. I know it is not all about beauty. Though it does help to have it. I have seen some women who people might say are pretty and I thought they were a true beauty. Where there are others people say they are a beauty and I say they are pretty. It is all in the eye of the beholder. That is the true power of beauty.