Beyond Beauty
"Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace." Beauty? What defines beauty? What is this state of beauty? The human consciousness is so drawn into, so completely transfixed by what they deem beautiful, that we become victim to our physical egos. This ego at its root is supposed to give you boundaries and a sense of self, but when it becomes off-balance, it leads us to define ourselves according to these various external qualities/circumstances like in the case with beauty. Beauty is so much more than this smug perception we have altered our minds to believe. Beauty forces the contemplative being out of all of us, it forces us to marvel, to become mesmerized…resulting in that euphoric feeling of time being frozen. In that mere instant, our awareness is present. We remove our conscious from the constant rush of our existence and enter into a dre...
