Feeling beauty

What is beauty and why do we feel so deeply attracted to it? Why do we find somebody or something beautiful so mesmerising and eye-catching that we sometimes struggle to stop looking at it? And is beauty actually only about what we can see?

Beauty can be found in everything that surrounds us - in art and music, in nature, architecture, fashion and people. We can not only see beauty, but also hear it or perceive it with other different senses, for example while smelling perfume or a bouquet of flowers or while touching soft silk fabric. However, beauty is mostly about this what and how we feel while experiencing it - it’s about the emotions and internal experiences it evokes and leads us to. It's about moving a soul. Meeting something truly beautiful lets us immerse in a certain state that has been deeply written within our nature.

Although trends have been changing over centuries, man has always desired to create something beautiful. Not only for the external audience, but mostly for themselves. I believe we have an element of divinity within us that makes us desire to strive for beauty, feel it in its highest form, create it and then - share it with others. The concept of beauty also makes me ponder further over the nature of a man. I feel that the true experience of beauty may connect us with the Source. Seeing a breath-taking view of mountains or astonishing sunsets may lead us to the reflection of the Creator of it all. Who has created the whole world the way? Had the one particular breath-taking sunset been planned for me to experience? The one that I suppose I will not forget, because it made me desire so deeply to pause the time and last in the indescribably marvellous moment for as long as I only could… Could such a significant moment be a coincidence?

It also brings to my mind a question of our true self. If living here, in the realm of lack of understanding and profound limitations, we are still able to experience beauty so much, how much more will we perceive it later on leaving the limiting chains behind us?

Beauty has always been one of the ultimate human ideals, a deep inner desire and calling resulting from our nature. It’s there to propel us, to seek for the real and meaningful beauty in this world and the reason behind it. Although beauty tends to be misunderstood these days and it may even mislead some, especially in the culture of vast promotion of the beauty of a body we all have been brought up. However, the true beauty doesn’t rely only on visual aspects, it’s been there to experience and live through as its main purpose is to touch our hearts and change them for better. Real beauty is always good as it truly has the beginning not in our world.