Real Beauty Comes from Within
By mati. Filed in Beauty |Tags: Beauty
So far, the beauty we are most concerned with, is the outer beauty, beauty that is no more than skin deep, even though real beauty supposedly comes from within. Unfortunately, what most of us feel is that it is criticizm that comes from within, not beauty. There is always this little voice telling you that you have gotten another sunspot, or 3 more wrinkles around your eyes. Better stop smiling, or you’ll be getting more wrinkles by the minute!!!
What madness! What beauty can be there, if you can’t even smile? Who is this inner judge of lack of perfection, always telling you how you don’t measure up? How can you possibly feel beautiful when you carry around an inner voice that always tells you how ugly you are?
The culprit is called the mind. Mind is another name for madness. Mind is never happy with anything. Watch it, and you’ll see. Mind judges, criticizes, dissects, cuts apart, and when it has destroyed everything, it becomes unhappy, dissatisfied, miserable, looking outside for some kind of fulfillment. If you can’t be perfect, maybe botox is the answer? You are so ugly, you just need a new face! That’s it!!! A new face will make you happy! NOT….
Ekhart Tolle says that mind is completely incapable of seeing or creating beauty, and that true beauty can only be created from a space beyond mind. Mind also makes it impossible to love. How can you love yourself, or anybody else for that matter, when mind is always in the way, nagging, judging and criticising?
The only way to experience beauty and love is by going to a place that is beyond mind. Go inside, become silent, listen to the wind and the birds, feel the sun or the rain on your face and let the silence of nature go deep into you. Do you feel beautiful when you close your eyes? When you don’t wear makeup and don’t have anyone to compare yourself with? Can you feel the beauty of existence flowing through your form? Beauty is so much more than physical form! Too bad we are so attached to the physical, when the physical is only temporary.
The other day, I was rushing through the supermarket with a shopping list in my hand. As I walked passed the flower section, there was a huge section of just easter lillies. I caught a whiff of their scent as I rushed by, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I forgot both the shopping and the list, and had to go back just to smell them. As their fragrance filled me with gratefulness for their generosity, I realized what incredible beauty there is everywhere we look!
The flowers didn’t care if anyone bent down to smell them – they were still pouring their fragrance out, sharing with anyone who had enough awareness to notice it! It totally blew my mind! This is real beauty! Beauty beyond mind! I’m grateful to the easter lillies for teaching me another lesson of truth! We still have so much to learn…
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