picture from the International Museum of Women
Today, I was thinking about beauty and how much it is pursued throughout the world. Mary Baker Eddy gives us a whole beauty treatment in Science and Health that I have worked with for years. Then I thought of all the interesting and inspiring blogs I have read on image, identity, weight loss, beauty, etc and thought it would be a friendly thing to share all of that here!
So, for those of you looking for a morning exercise on beauty and balance, enjoy!
From Evan:
From Laura:
- Beauty and blessing (scroll down to April 10 posting)
- Exuberance (scroll down to April 13 posting)
From Julie
From spirituality.com
From me
- Scroll down through this whole series to read these posts: Sparkle; Powerful womanhood; totally, absolutely perfect; beauty redefined; 50 is now the new 30; and - last post of this series - Beautiful and attractive
- Also see the right hand column for ideas on beauty!
And, the treatment mentioned above from Science and Health:
Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as mortal belief. Custom, education, and fashion form the transient standards of mortals. Immortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its own,--the radiance of Soul. Immortal men and women are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness which transcend all material sense.
Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Being possesses its qualities before they are perceived humanly. Beauty is a thing of life, which dwells forever in the eternal Mind and reflects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness.
The embellishments of the person are poor substitutes for the charms of being,
shining resplendent and eternal over age and decay.
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful. Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness or gloom.
To share your thoughts on this or to explore this idea further, please feel free to be in contact with me, add your own comments below, email this article to a friend, or add to the healing finds and sites on the web to the right.
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