Thursday, September 14, 2006

Beauty (9/14/2006)

A thought about BEAUTY!

Today in my yoga class, we were asked to think about BEAUTY. It means different things to different people. But beauty is everywhere, it is just a matter of taking a moment to acknowledge the beauty that exists around us and in everything.

A couple of things that struck me that we all take for granted:

The beauty of our bodies. Our body does so much for us each day and because of the commercial world we live in, we get focused on an image of beauty that is so far from reality and created by someone else. Isn't beauty an individual thing? Shouldn't we all learn to see the beauty that we are...just the way we are?

Secondly, take the time to see the beauty in things that "are." Things that don't have a purpose other than to simply "be." A great example of this is a POEM. It just is and it is beauty in its own form.

My hope is that by reading this you may slow just a bit and take in the unremarkable beauty all around us, that is, in reality - QUITE REMARKABLE!

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