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Today's
Meditation:
We all are beautiful. It's just too bad that
most of us can't see the beauty in each other, or in
ourselves. We've been trained to look for flaws, so
our personal searches for beauty have become searches for
flawlessness rather than searches for the beautiful.
If our goal is to make ourselves beautiful, we're wasting
our time. We're already beautiful, whether we're
willing to admit it or not. We've just put up so
many barriers to our beauty over the years in the form of
biases and beliefs and walls to protect ourselves that our
beauty simply isn't the part that's most obvious-- our
protective layers are.
Our normal condition is beauty. There really isn't
more to it than that. What we tend to believe is
beauty, though, is what our society deems to be beautiful,
some sort of ideal that only a very few reach. This
is a crock, quite simply. Some of the most beautiful
people I've ever met have been those who are completely
fine with themselves the way they are, and they focus on
things other than trying to reach that ideal-- things like
helping others and nurturing themselves and giving and
caring.
Are you seeking beauty in yourself? Well, it's
already there, and it's fabulous. Are you seeking
beauty in others? Again, if you're not seeing it
then it's not because it isn't there, because it most
certainly is there. And if you can't see it, then
you must ask yourself: are you seeking beauty, or
are you seeking an ideal? Because there's plenty of
the former, yet very little of the latter.
When we misunderstand what beauty is, then we doom
ourselves to looking for something that we'll never
find. It's like searching for diamonds, but not
knowing what they look like. We may see many of
them, but never recognize them. When you really do
open your mind enough to actually see the beauty in the
people and the world around you, and in yourself, your
world will transform, and you'll find that your life will
transform, also.
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