Every day people look for the true meaning of beauty, not only physically but also in the things that surround them, in order to enjoy the symmetry, perfection, tranquility, harmony, and many other things that make them live their lives in a comfortable and secure way, in total personal balance.
Physical beauty is not the same for everyone, people’s opinions are different. If you compare the opinion of people from different races, you will always get a group that will come up with an ideal man or ideal woman, and other groups will most likely have a different opinion.
German lyric poet and playwright Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, who died in Weimar in 1805, said that “The charm of beauty lies in its mystery. If we undo the subtle threads that link its elements, all essence evaporates”
Moreover, German philosopher Immanuel Kant, considered one of the most important thinkers in Europe and universal philosophy, said that “thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
Determining the outer beauty is an extremely arduous and difficult task, as there are prototypes according to each civilization, however there are established standards of beauty that prevail in the opinion of humanity. However, when it comes to inner beauty, other components such as education, personality, charm, achieved goals, feelings, etc. are factors that support the attractiveness of a person.
In a Higher plane, when the soul detaches from the matter, beauty is perfect, because it is not attached to the demands of a body that will inevitably deteriorate. And once in the spiritual world, it becomes an eternal soul, to which God gives an appropriate body, allowing it to join Him in Spiritual Love. Once it is recognized as eternal beauty, it doesn’t sin; it is preserved as a mixture of God’s love and consciousness.
There is a real natural beauty that can be seen when there is no makeup, and when we are not subjected to any archetype, we are truly beautiful. Today, artificial or surgical beauty is very common, and this has become a very popular trend that aims at correcting or modifying features that intervene with the symmetry of the face, and also some aspects of the body, to make it more attractive according with the taste of the person requesting the service.
If you are happy and satisfied with yourself, your daily life and the place you live, then you have the warmth and brightness that comes from a sense of peace and well-being. The ability to achieve beauty makes it manifest and shine on you.
That’s why there’s the saying of “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
You are right, beauty it’s seen in so many different ways. I think there should not be a standard of beauty because we all are different, there are a million types of beauty, I think. Nice entry!!