How to Surround Yourself with Real Beauty
How do you surround yourself with Real Beauty? No, I am not talking about a room filled with magazine covers or celebrities but the kind of beauty that comes from within. Sometimes people have a wall of resistance of talking about beauty and the real meaning of it in our lives. Beauty comes in so many forms, but the most substantial and sustainable beauty comes from the natural state of being. It’s ironic how we can in our thinking disconnect from the most beautiful thing about us-the present. When we are twenty and in a physical state that we will not hang on to… we don’t even realize that we are beautiful because we are just as distracted by the things we are supposed to be doing for our future. When we arrive into the future and have achieved success-personally, professionally and spiritually we long for what we had physically at twenty.
I like to think of it as tree wisdom. A young sapling just grows instinctively, it doesn’t compare itself to the larger tree next door or across the field, it just grows toward the sun. As the tree becomes stronger and older it becomes the support system for the eco-environment and all that rely on it’s being there for the bigger picture.
Perhaps it is time to look at what we can do to connect to our real beauty that defines us by the actions that we live and how we give our branches to others. Stop worrying about the beautiful little sapling for it knows not how beautiful it really is. Embrace what is yours and what you cannot change about your individual beauty. Reach for the essence of beauty that you can change from the inside out and gravitate to the others who live their life cultivating their own grace.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Jude
This is great. People do look too much on the outside to see how they are suppose to be. Women, I think, forget that they hold their beauty from within and if they embrace it, it will shine through on its own. I know that I need to stop looking at others to give me a perception of how I am to be in life, not only in beauty, but also how to think and act.