Beauty - redefined

Spiritual resource to share: Beauty








I am so into this new television series “Ugly Betty”! In a word, it is a television series centered on an average looking girl with a big heart who breaks into the glamorous world of fashion magazines. It takes the growing Latino population in the US and the backlash about the extremes of physical beauty and blends it into a series of engaging stories about what it means to be truly beautiful.

Family values, morality tales, unselfishness, and an unflappably good soul are all given top billing here. And like most popular programs, this one has expanded its message to include affiliations (like with Girl, Inc.) and with its own campaign (See Ugly Campaign.)

And another set of kudos to Madrid for leading the way pioneering normal beauty. They are not only taking waif-like looking models off the runway, but are requiring stores to display their mannequins with the average size of people today.

This has received a great response from the fashionistas in Italy and has been hailed in the US as well.

I am so grateful to see this discussion fully flowering. Beauty is emerging as a powerfully pure and natural spiritual quality that belongs to everyone and can be found, not in cosmetic surgery or in make-up, but in radiant gratitude, serenity, and unselfish goodness.

Mary Baker Eddy’s comments on beauty have been so helpful to me, that from time to time, I use this whole page as a form of my beauty treatment! Part of it reads,

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.

For an extra beauty treatment, treat yourself to my friend Evan's blog posts on beauty, exercise and diet. (Scroll way down on his blog site to get to these categories.) And check out the right hand side of this site for some more ideas on Beauty. AND, please share your ideas on what it means to be beautiful!


Photo from abc.com

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