Many times I have asked myself what is beauty and the answer remains in my mind.

Physical beauty is not to be thin and young; it is more an expression of our own inner happiness.  This happiness, which is deep, is more related to the knowledge that each one of us have of ourselves.  Contemptness, self awareness, forgiveness of oneself and understanding of who we are, where we come from and love of these discovering.

It would be difficult to appreciate the appearance of our bodies without appreciating how we really are.

Yes, we relate to our environment and to our society and that society tells us that being tall and thin is to be pretty.  Publicity has made us believe that beauty relates to exterior only and to modern stereotypes.  Globalization has cut the link between different cultural beauty and we all want to be a barby doll.

Nevertheless, in many old cultures having wrinkles and gray hair would be a sign of wisdom and wisdom would be beauty.

Why then, Society has this new need to eradicate this form of beauty?

Probably because we live in a trade society in which things can be sold or purchased, in the same way, we all think subconsciously that we are willing to buy our beauty.

Let me tell you that beauty can not be purchased, it has to be acquired.

Many would tell me:  Does that mean that I should not color my hair anymore? Shouldn’t I wear make up?

Well, that’s a decision we should make.

We live in a society, negotiate with it, and if it doesn’t hurt my soul, I say it really doesn’t matter.

Life should be a balance between my self knowledge, my understanding of life, my awareness; therefore, balance also involves society.  This is a net in which we play a beautiful role; so, my appearance is as important as my inside.

 We wouldn’t want to place a beautiful flower in an ugly old base, the base should be according to the flower.

Our souls, our inner being have a temple and that temple is our bodies.  So, healthy food, good creams and anything which could enhance ourselves according to who we really are is good for us.

Yet, awareness involves dying as pass over.  We are all daily dying in our lives, it involves to assume things that we should change and make them die in order to allow the new seed of self knowledge to grow, therefore, we all should accept the death of the ages in which we have been, teens should die inside of ourselves in order to allow the total formed woman.  The woman should die in order to allow the wise old woman to grow.  This allowing or letting go means to accept and appreciate the stage of life in which we are and be proud of it, and yes, also the temples which change also with age should be taken care of in order to better exist.

 

The beauty of changes is what make this world perfect and we should take care of that perfection allowing balance to take place in ourselves.

 

We women are the best expression of death and rebirth, we are the givers of live, the vessels of life, we have love within ourselves and we must make that love shine as the sun in the morning and also in the sunset.