Beauty

Someone wrote: “Beauty is not a thing. It’s a way of looking at things”. Your problem as a human being is that you are always looking for “something”. You are practical, you live in a material world, therefore you must deal with things. When you look at a painting, you need to say “This painting is beautiful”, meaning that the colors are artistically blended, that the images are perfectly shaped, that the expressions on the faces of the people portrayed are natural. What you usually fail to “see” is the deep meaning behind the painting. You stop at the surface, you are contented with what your eyes see when you look at an art piece or what your ears hear when you listen to a symphony. Only when you succeed in going beyond what appears, can you understand and experience absolute beauty.  When you are able to admire a sunset, when you are in awe before a multicolored tree in the fall or a leaf wandering in the wind, when your soul is filled with wonder, your spirit is lifted to metaphysical heights. Beauty is everywhere and it can be found in art masterpieces, in nature wonders, as well as in the smallest or simplest 'whatever', if only human beings could learn how to really look.