.:beauty:.

if you look around, beauty is ubiquitous. in fact, one doesn't even need to look that far. beauty begins with us. whether or not you believe in God, there is something special about humans--the religious say that uniqueness is the image and likeness of God in us, the capability to become like Him (not become Him or another god, i'm not speaking mormon, though i love all my mormon friends). the nonreligious sometimes hold up the body as well--it is the realm of their/our existence, the place in which all emotions, sensations, feelings pass. so, look not far to first find beauty--and don't forget beauty is on the inside, not just on the outside. once you've found the beauty inside you, the beauty of creation is even more mesmerising. not only is there a world that is so harmoniously savage and refined, but we are apart of that paradoxical nature. the trees, the flowers, the bees, the meadow buzzing with life--awake and you shall see the beauty in each. worlds of color become present.

yet so far i have only talked of that beauty which is aesthetic, that beauty which is either pleasing to the eyes or nose or hands or hears or mouth, that beauty which is intrinsically part of the natural world. yet that beauty though hard to truly discover is not nearly as elusive as beauty in an artificial world. if you clear your head of all thoughts and just open your eyes to what is around you, be you at at a mall, an office building or a nuclear plant, open your eyes and open your eye. look not only with your eyes but with your eye. do not just scan the horizon, scourer the horizon, know every single shade of gray. realise every pixel in the monotonous color, light gray becomes as pink, darker gray as blue, a whole rainbow of monotone. to see that beauty is not a daily occurence, nor a particularly satisfying one should you care not for all beauty. yet if you open your eye and care for all of beauty, beauty is there, seek her and she will find you.