What is Beauty?
Wisdom. Wisdom makes a person beautiful. Zen Buddhism embraces the understanding that age is to be respected and admired. Aged wood with its extreme bands and winding grain. Experience yields a mind of solutions. Solutions are a benefit of wisdom. Wisdom is very beautiful.
Happiness is also beautiful. Smiles are contagious and inviting. Everyone looks beautiful when smiling, everyone. Laughter begins and ends with smiles, generally, and is a sure sign of happiness. Laughter, soft and quiet, or loud and heavy, laughter touches the heart. Laughter is beautiful.
Sacrifice is beautiful. Generosity is rewarded with contempt, but the generous are always loved. What's purely loved is always beautiful. Children, mothers and siblings, we love them and they are beautiful. Giving is beautiful.
Forgiveness is beautiful. Not everyone is capable. Special in it's difficulty. Closed minds are close hearts, cold people aren't beautiful. Understanding in application is forgiveness of a friend, stranger, or loved one. Patience is beautiful.
Beauty is a concept that no two people could completely agree upon it's ingredients, but all could agree it can be a product of good or a tool of evil. Beauty can be used for deception. Beauty can come as a mask and manipulate. But Beauty is sublime in and of itself. Beauty is something, some part, some bit of each and every one of us. Beauty is a root of human nature.
The sublime is true romantic beauty. That which strikes awe in the viewer, listener, sympathizer, the observer. Overwhelming and piercing the chests of it's audience. Beauty is sublime, awe inspiring, emotion. Beauty is felt, not just seen. Beauty is overwhelming.
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