Saturday, August 18, 2012

THOUGHTS: WHAT MAKE US BEAUTIFUL?

Does there exist anywhere a soul that does not revel in beauty and long for more? We will pay large sums to have beauty in our lives. It comes to us in so many forms. We purchase the most beautiful car we can afford. A young man will pursue the most beautiful woman in his life. Beauty is something we all experience and yet have an incredibly difficult time defining. It changes from culture to culture yet has universal qualities. Some African tribes see incredible beauty in intricate patterns of scars. Ancient Romans found beauty in power and order. Greeks found it in youth, the painters of the Renaissance in color, modern people in music. All seem to find it in a sunset.

Plato equated beauty with that which is good. Aristotle defined it as that which had symmetry and proportionality. Isaiah told us the feet that bear good news are beautiful. Little boys are smitten with the beauty of their mothers and want to live with her for the rest of their lives.

Perhaps it is love that makes something beautiful. Yet, that cannot be totally true since we find flowers and great paintings beautiful and do not love them. However our love for someone does indeed make him or her beautiful. The more we love them the more beautiful they become.

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