What is the beauty of the human soul? What is the inner beauty of a person
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Quotes and Aphorisms
Dear readers, today I would like to talk to you about beauty. This topic has never been deprived of attention; so much has been said and discussed about it that it would seem very difficult to add anything more. But we will try anyway. After all, you can glean a lot of wisdom from quotes and aphorisms about beauty, which will never be superfluous.
A person needs beauty, his soul and eyes look for beauty in everything that surrounds him. After all, beauty is, first of all, the harmony of the internal and external human world. It is inseparable from art. Beauty gives birth to music, it is a muse for painting, poetry, and prose. The Bible also says that the world is based on beauty.
About the essence of beauty
What is beauty? Is it possible to answer this question unambiguously? Each person sees it differently. And often, in order to see real beauty, you need to be able to see not with your eyes, but with your soul. After all, external beauty is so short-lived. This is precisely what is so subtly noted in quotes and aphorisms about beauty.
“Beauty is an eternity that lasts a moment.”
Albert Camus
“Outward purity and grace should be an expression of inner purity and beauty.”
Vasily Belinsky
“There can be no beauty in what there is no wisdom.”
Etienne-Louis Bullet
“Only pure hearts see true beauty.”
Yanka Bryl
“Beauty lies not in individual features and lines, but in the overall expression of the face, in the sense of life that manifests itself in it.”
Yakov Dobrolyubov
Janusz Korczak
“It’s amazing how beauty and death, joy and decay are necessary for each other and condition each other.”
Hermann Hesse
“The appearance of things changes according to moods, and therefore we see magic and beauty in them, while magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
“Beauty is not in the face, beauty is the light in the heart.”
Gibran Kahlil Gibran “It’s hard to keep anger in your heart when there is so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I see all of her and it becomes unbearable. My heart is filled with her, like balloon
which is about to burst. And then I relax and stop resisting her. And it seeps through me like rain. And I feel nothing but gratitude for every moment of my stupid little life.”
from the movie "American Beauty"
The beauty of women has been the cause of many significant events in the world. Let us at least remember what Troy paid for sheltering the most beautiful of mortal women, Helen. How many masterpieces of world literature, music and painting appeared thanks to the fact that their authors were inspired by women! The admiration and admiration for female beauty is so clearly stated in numerous quotes and aphorisms about the beauty of women.
“Looking at a beautiful woman, I can’t help but fall in love with her, I’m crazy about her. It’s like a lightning strike and lasts just as long: a moment.”
Jules Renard
“They listen to a beautiful woman not so much with their ears at first, but with their eyes and an enthusiastic soul.”
Leonid S. Sukhorukov
“Beauty is also a virtue; a beautiful woman cannot have flaws.”
Johann Friedrich Schiller
“Is there anything more beautiful in the world than a beautiful woman?!”
Pierre Brantome de Bourdeil
“This is her custom: beauty is always right.”
Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur
A woman has only one opportunity to be beautiful, but there are a hundred thousand opportunities to be attractive.”
Montesquieu
Arthur Schopenhauer
“There are such perfect forms of beauty and such brilliant dignity that people touched by it limit themselves to looking at it and talking about it.”
Jean de La Bruyère
“People stopped being animals when a man began to appreciate beauty in a woman.”
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
“Beauty alone conquers us with strength. We, not fearing death, are afraid of dear wrath!
Pierre Corneille
“Beautiful women’s legs have turned more than one page in history.”
However, the beauty of a woman is not only the correct facial features, beautiful figure and expensive clothes. Oh, if only everything were so simple... Even in fairy tales, beauties, in addition to external attractiveness, should also have internal ones: kindness, charm, sincerity. After all, evil cannot be beautiful. Moreover, attractiveness and youth are so short-lived... Quotes and aphorisms about female beauty Once again we are reminded of this.
“A woman is adorned by what makes her more beautiful, but what makes her so is not gold, emeralds and purple, but modesty, decency and bashfulness.”
“Stupid beauty is not beauty. Look at the stupid beauty, look deeply into every feature of her face, into her smile, her gaze - her beauty will gradually turn into amazing ugliness.”
Ivan Goncharov
“To make your lips beautiful, say only kind words.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Beauty is a queen who reigns for a very short time.”
“A beauty who won’t bother with her mind. The mind will invent it, but beauty will get it!”
William Shakespeare
“There is beauty over which the years have no power - this is the beauty of the heart.”
Eastern wisdom
“I prefer to see ten times a day an ugly form in which there is brilliance, originality and intelligence, than to see once a month a beautiful nothingness in which the soul is barren.”
Amin Reyhani
“Not the one who is beautiful whose arm or leg is praised, but the one whose whole appearance does not allow one to admire individual features.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beauty is in simplicity
Simplicity, naturalness, genuineness have always gone hand in hand with the concept of true beauty. Is a wildflower less beautiful than a luxurious orchid? After all, the tinsel of jewelry only interferes with seeing the whole essence of beauty. Quotes and aphorisms on the topic “beauty is in simplicity” say this so accurately.
“In character, in manners, in style, in everything, the beauty is simplicity.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Beauty is like gem: the simpler it is, the more precious it is.”
Francis Bacon
“Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.”
Christoph Willibald Gluck
“Only that which is natural is beautiful.”
Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
“Beauty is in simplicity and pristineness. Constant striving for perfection and therefore incompleteness.”
Japanese wisdom
“Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic oddities, but in simplicity and naturalness.”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“Beauty does not need additional adornment - what makes it most beautiful is the absence of adornment.”
Johann Gottfried Herder
"Simplicity is highest form sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
“Beauty is when there is nothing superfluous.”
Fashion queen Coco Chanel on beauty
I really love re-reading the sayings of the great Coco Chanel. A woman who has made a real revolution in the world of fashion and has such impeccable taste and style has something to say about beauty. Coco Chanel's beauty quotes are as laconic and yet eloquent as her famous little black dress.
“When taking care of beauty, you must start with the heart and soul, otherwise no amount of cosmetics will help.”
“Not every woman is born beautiful, but if she has not become so by the age of 30, she is simply stupid.”
“We need beauty for men to love us, and stupidity for us to love men.”
“If you are struck by the beauty of a woman, but you cannot remember what she was wearing, then she was dressed perfectly.”
“There shouldn’t be beautiful men, but there shouldn’t be ugly ones. There are only a few flowers and warm champagne.”
“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”
“If you want to be beautiful, wash your hair.”
“At 20 you have the face that nature gave you, at 30 you have the face that life sculpted for you, and at 50 you have the face you deserve.”
“Stupid women try to impress men by dressing eccentrically. And this scares men; they cannot stand eccentricity. They like it when people look at their women because they are beautiful.”
"A living thing cannot be ugly."
“Adoration is science! Beauty is always a weapon!
Modesty is the other side of elegance!”
And beauty is in the little things...
Truly happy are those people who know how to notice beauty in little things! Or maybe everything beautiful consists of little things? One brush stroke on paper is just a stain. And many will make a beautiful picture. Quotes and aphorisms about the ability to find beauty in little things will once again remind us of this.
“Happy is he who can see beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing.”
Camille Pizarro
“There is beauty in everything, but not everyone can see it.”
Confucius
“A person is beautiful in the little things.”
Disana Kumykova
“Until we learn to admire man as the most beautiful and wonderful phenomenon on our planet, until that time we will not be freed from the abomination and lies of our life.”
Maksim Gorky
“Perfection comes from the little things. Little things make perfection, and perfection is not a little thing.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti “They are wasted in vain: a moonlit night, if you sleep; Beautiful places
, if you don’t admire them; wife of a young rake."
Huang Yun Jiao
“Forests teach people to understand beauty.”
Anton Chekhov
Francis Bacon
“True beauty always has a flaw.”
Beauty is a terrible force
We are all, of course, familiar with the aphorism of the brilliant Faina Ranevskaya that beauty is a terrible force, which instantly became a popular expression. However, the author of this statement was not the highly respected Faina Georgievna. These are lines from the poem “Ugly Girl” by the poet Semyon Nadson. But it was the great actress’s comic talent that gave this phrase an ironic expression. This means that we can allow ourselves to joke about beauty. "Why do beautiful women use great success
in men, what are smart?
- It is obvious! After all, there are very few blind men, and stupid ones are a dime a dozen.”
Faina Ranevskaya
“How can beauty save the world if all it does is require sacrifice?”
“Loving a person for their beauty is like loving chocolate for its wrapper.”
“A beautiful woman pleases the male eye, an ugly woman pleases the female eye.”
“Tell me, what is more important in a girl: intelligence or beauty?
- Smart question.
- Beautiful answer..."
“Only by marrying a beautiful woman does a man understand that beauty requires sacrifice.”
“There is no harder job than trying to look beautiful from eight in the morning until midnight.”
Brigitte Bardot
“If you introduce a tax on female beauty, not a single state will have problems with the budget.”
Boris Trushkin
“The survey showed that Russian women are the most beautiful. Only Russian women were interviewed.”
“Beauty can be compared to a layer cake: layer – good genes, layer – care, layer – successful wardrobe, layer – manners, layer – charm.”
About spiritual beauty
Initially, the soul of every person is pure and beautiful. And then it depends on us how long it will retain its light and purity. Will we be able to avoid accumulating in her the negativity that accompanies us in adulthood? In quotes and aphorisms about the beauty of the soul and about inner beauty, their value and importance for a person is so aptly noted.
“To be beautiful does not mean to be born so,
After all, we can learn beauty.
When a man is beautiful in soul -
What appearance can compare with her?
Omar Khayyam
“The true beauty of the soul has an amazing property: even in extreme old age they see it, admire it and appreciate it, because unlike physical beauty, it never fades.”
“No external beauty can be complete unless it is enlivened by internal beauty.”
“External beauty is even more precious when it covers the internal. A book whose golden clasps close its golden contents acquires special respect.”
William Shakespeare
“Everything that you look at with love seems beautiful.”
Christian Morgenstern
“Spiritual beauty is infinitely more beautiful than all others, and therefore bodies, being only shadows of existence, must have a charm that speaks of spiritual beauty. This type of beauty belongs to nature and is superior to art created by man.”
Jonathan Edwards
Marsilio Ficino
Makeup and beauty
Any woman wants to look attractive and fresh. One of the main assistants in this difficult task is, of course, cosmetics and makeup. The whole meaning of this art, in which women have achieved perfection, is reflected in quotes and aphorisms about makeup and beauty.
"Beautiful women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears."
Beauty is a sense of self, and it is reflected in your eyes. Sophia Loren
What is the beauty of the soul, and what connects it with bodily beauty?
Ironically, people think that they will be happy if they have . However, without harmony in the soul, it is impossible to achieve true beauty and maintain it.
Even the most correct facial features lose their attractiveness when a person is angry, upset or dissatisfied. The face, as if in a mirror, reflects those that we cherish within ourselves - our thoughts and actions.
Wise people say that every person is beautiful. But not everyone is able to see the beauty of another.
And this is such a magical quality, the possession of which makes us beautiful in the eyes of others. Let's train him! After all, we mean so much to each other...
Beauty of the soul: tiny stories about us
I had the idea of creating video sketches about our lives that illustrate the most subtle, sensitive strings of the human soul.
Those that we most often hide from others, and even from ourselves. For fear of being misunderstood, vulnerable, offended.
You can see all the cartoons from this series on my channel.
The beauty of the soul grows from grateful memory
Unfortunately, only once a year do we remember the people who have given life free from the yoke of invaders to several generations!
Dear readers, please accept my musical congratulations on Victory Day. It is made in the style of a multimedia presentation.
To view, click the forward arrow and let your soul respond to these images, words and music.
Mental balance is the basis of the beauty of the soul
How to maintain peace of mind?
The principle is surprisingly simple: in all areas of life one should develop the qualities that are lacking in the mind and body. And, on the contrary, limit access to those that are naturally abundant.
“Undigested” emotions upset the balance and poison the body. From this “root” health problems grow. Emotions are generated by attitude. Therefore, you should change your attitude towards events that caused negative feelings, and not push your emotions inside.
Balance is when the body and mind are healthy and the soul is calm. Peace comes when you stop explaining everything that happens to you, and instead accept it with gratitude. What is immediately reflected is the largest external human organ. Then she seems to radiate a natural glow.
One follows from the other: beauty appearance from the beauty of the soul. Anyway.
In conclusion, I will cite a phrase I read somewhere, which I take as parting words. Maybe it will be useful to you too.
Work as if you don't need money. Love as if no one has ever hurt you. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Live as if it were heaven on earth!
The beauty of the human soul- the most valuable thing on earth, and it simply cannot be overestimated. Appearance is just a shell, an external design of the inner world of a person.
“What delights us in visible beauty is always only the invisible”
Just give the inner self a chance to express itself, to shed the husks of layers that burden the soul. Accumulated over the years, our ego is in no hurry to lose ground, and those who think that cleansing the soul and returning it to its former beauty are easy and problem-free are deeply mistaken. People who have taken the path of self-development will agree with me that this process is difficult, but joyful.
Why is this necessary?
I foresee a chorus of voices objecting to me. Therefore, respecting everyone's opinion, I will not argue with anyone. Your soul, like yours, is only in your hands! You have every right to believe in the existence of a spiritual component of man. How to deal with this is also within the limitations of each individual.
Just remember that a beautiful soul loves definitely its owner, believes and waits for his insight! For she herself chose him, came into this world, goes through all the tests with him and only after
Girls want to be beautiful and attractive, remember that in order to be liked, it is not enough to dress Nice dress! It's good that there is now a good choice: beautiful fashionable evening dresses, mini and maxi, for fat and thin people, luxurious cocktail and club dresses, dresses of different styles and for different tastes! Please! Everything is at your service! What about the inner world? What about the human soul? A beautiful woman is not only a sleek beauty with an icy gaze, complete contempt for others and rejection. What is it, a beautiful woman?
A smile, friendliness, sociability, a good sense of humor, this is also important in a beauty, and not just her appearance! Beauty of the soul! A beautiful woman often captivates not with her cold beauty, like hers Snow Queen, but with your charm and charisma! Have you met girls who are simple at first glance? You look at her - she seems like an ordinary girl, nothing special, but you just have to smile at her! And everything changes! And now she is already beautiful and delightful in such a way that it is impossible to take your eyes off her. Shining star! It’s not without reason that even poems about the beauty of a woman’s soul have been heard more than once from the lips of admiring men!
A fashionable dress is wonderful, but what about the beauty of the soul?
The beauty of a woman includes such qualities as:
- Smile.
- Kindness.
- Sympathy.
- Empathy.
- Charm.
- Listening skills.
- The ability to understand another.
- The ability to forgive.
- The ability to give affection and care.
- To love and to be loved.
- Enjoy life and make others happy.
- Be grateful to life and those around you.
- The ability to be sincere and honest.
Watch this clip and listen to the song: “Oh, what a woman!”
A woman is beautiful who has a beautiful soul, and not just a fashionable, elegant dress she is wearing. No matter what the best evening dress she is in, if she has an angry face, it overshadows the entire effect of her efforts to make herself look beautiful.
A woman can be stunningly attractive when she is beaming with joy and happiness. She walks and as if the radiance inside her shines on those around her. Joy, love, kindness - that's what really makes beautiful woman and people in general. The radiance of love, the radiance of happiness illuminates a woman from the inside. The beauty of her feminine soul warms those around her.
And it’s not so important what dress she’s wearing this moment: a fashionable beautiful evening dress or a simple one, fashionable this year, the main thing is that she is beautiful! A woman is a conductor of Light, Love, Tenderness and Beauty. How wonderful it is when external beauty coincides with external beauty. A delightful combination.
Singers sang of female beauty, poets dedicated poems, artists painted pictures. How many magazines, books, and time are devoted to outside affairs, female beauty, the beauty of the body, and about the beauty of the female soul, how little they think about it.
By the way, read:
Is your soul beautiful?
The beauty of a woman's soul is a concept. about which, alas, little is said and remembered, as well. as is the beauty of the male soul. After all, handsome man, this is not only someone who has perfectly pumped up muscles and has a jeep in the garage, this is a person for whom such concepts are important. like conscience and honor, decency and responsibility. The beauty of a man's soul, is this concept often remembered? It seems that it is even less common than about women. But this is so important! External attractiveness is important at the first moment of acquaintance; of course, it plays a decisive role, and then such qualities as the beauty of the soul or the lack thereof come to the fore.
It happens that you look at a person’s face and clearly see greed, disdain for other people, envy, malice and irritation towards the whole world. No matter how he puts on a hypocritical mask and no matter what beautiful fashionable dress you dress him in, this man rots internally during his life. He is like a walking dead man and the stench of his soul is overwhelmed by the beauty of a luxurious fashionable dress. Naked we came into this world, naked we will leave! How can you forget about the beauty of the soul, exchanging it for fashionable dress? It’s better to let one successfully complement the other! How wonderful it is when a young, charming lady walks down the street, beaming with happiness, dressed in a beautiful summer dress. She herself rejoices and makes others happy with her appearance! A young flower, full of fragrant happiness and beauty! Beautiful young sun! You look at her and think how beautiful she is!
Girls, girls, women and grandmothers, be beautiful not only with your body. but also with soul! Shine like luxurious stars in the sky and delight the world! You are gorgeous!
The beauty of a woman's soul is as beautiful as heaven!
Beauty according to Feng Shui
Chinese teaching says Feng Shui, a person’s thoughts are a reflection of his life. If you change your bad thoughts for good ones, life will become better.
The principle also applies to beauty; its characteristics are considered individuality, inner strength. Stylist of such famous women How Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow says that in order to achieve beauty, you don’t need to change yourself, you need to return to yourself.
Chinese wisdom says that a woman owes three-tenths of her beauty to nature. The remaining seven-tenths comes from the outfit and makeup.
How you look depends on your ability to highlight your strengths. Feng Shui helps you create the appearance of your dreams. In every person there is one of the five predominant elements, it underlies a person’s worldview. The five elements are fire, earth, wood and water. In a person's life, everything changes and the elements also change. Of course, all this affects the person, his image, makeup and facial features.
People with wood elements They have adventurism, they are active, open, and sociable. Such people think clearly, they are organized in their actions, and they have a spirit of competition. A tree is always the soul of a company.
The charm of this element hides any flaws. When doing your hair, allow your hair to be slightly windy and free. Depending on the season, you can change your hair color. Always be flirty.
If in people it prevails earth element, they are usually attentive, patient, loyal, reliable, balanced, the only drawback is periodic low self-esteem. Makeup For such people, it’s not important that they wear minimal makeup or don’t wear makeup at all. But you should still use some cosmetics, they will give you confidence.
For skin care, use moisturizers. A not too strict hairstyle is especially suitable for a woman with an earth type element. By making asymmetrical bangs, you will get rid of unnecessary conservatism. The length of the hair should change imperceptibly and have some fluidity; for this you need to cut your hair with a ladder.
Man with metal element has self-discipline, focus, self-confidence, pride. Such people really look at life and strive to find out the essence of things. When it comes to makeup, a discreet classic style will suit you.
For people with this element, a strict hairstyle is suitable. You can allow yourself a variety of colors and shades in your hair. The only thing that can make your hair look heavier is expressive and contrasting colors.
Element water- this is always a romantic nature. The properties of this personality are the desire for self-improvement. Such people are conservative, dreamy, they love to teach foreign languages and read books. The disadvantage of this element is isolation and poor ability to live in real life.
Makeup should emphasize the romanticism of your nature. Your appearance must be flawless because you love putting on makeup. When it comes to hairstyles, you should know when to stop. Unnatural bright shades and African curls do not suit your element. Your hair should not be bulky and pretentious.
People with fire element don't have a moment's peace. They are explosive in nature and have frequent mood swings. Such people love everything new and bright. In makeup, you are allowed to use bright, saturated colors and use makeup to suit your mood.
Don't hide yourself in your hairstyle. Let your curly hair remain curly. Make asymmetrical haircuts and dye your strands in different colors.
Beauty discoveries from China
1. Anti-aging acupuncture. Allows you to tighten your facial muscles thanks to miniature needles.
2. Reishi. This cosmetics works as a stimulator for cellular renewal.
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What is beauty? There have been endless debates about what is hidden under this concept since the beginning of the creation of the world. Oscar Wilde said that beauty has as many meanings as there are moods in a person. But this is about the visible, about the tip of a beautiful iceberg. And what is hidden under the dark layer of water is the beauty of the human soul. There is even more debate about it. This is what we will talk about.
The essence of the world
There is an opinion that in our time they talk less and less about spirituality, about what the true beauty of the soul is, and they pay more and more attention to the external, to what can be seen, touched, bought or sold. Is it so? Perhaps this is true. But on the other hand, the essence of the world does not change. There have always been and will be rich and poor, truth and lies, sincerity and hypocrisy, love and hate, black and white. Everything is. The essence does not change, only new means are born. This means that the conversation about what the beauty of the soul is does not lose its relevance. And it’s time to remember the words of brilliant writers, poets, great philosophers, religious figures and many others.
Where does the soul live?
Every person has a soul. It is difficult to disagree with this statement. Nobody even tries. The only thing that is still being debated is where it lives, in what part of the body, and whether it continues to live after bodily death.
On the one hand, with scientific point point of view, it's very interesting questions. On the other hand, is it really so important, where? It can be in the solar plexus, in the heart, and in the head. The main thing is that it is true, unique and inimitable, like a drawing on the tip of a finger. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho argues that each of us is not a body endowed with a soul, but a soul, part of which is visible and called the body.
The outstanding Lebanese prose writer and philosopher Gibran Khalil Gibran also argued that the spirit is primary. He wrote that the beauty of the soul is like an invisible root that goes deep into the earth, but nourishes the flower, giving it color and aroma.
Ancient Greek philosophers
Since Aristotle, many philosophers have argued that beauty is a dual concept. There is beauty of the body and beauty of the soul. The first is understood as proportionality of parts, attractiveness, grace. The same Aristotle said that such beauty is understood and appreciated by ordinary people, who are accustomed to perceiving and feeling the world with only five basic senses. Anyone who admires such beauty is “only slightly different from animals” who rely only on their instincts.
Otherwise the situation will be inner world person. Different laws apply there, which means that everything that happens among its vast expanses is captured by different senses. Plato argued that the beauty of the soul is tangible only by virtuous people, for the beautiful and the bad cannot coexist, one excludes the other.
He is echoed by our contemporary Paulo Coelho, who says that if a person is able to notice beauty, it is only because he carries it inside. The world is a mirror reflecting our true nature.
The beauty of writers and poets
Not only ancient Greek philosophers spoke about the fact that beauty and soul are identical concepts. The classics of world literature wrote about this and our contemporaries continue to discuss this. Let's give a few examples. The 18th-century German poet and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was convinced that even the most homely body is transformed by spiritual beauty. And vice versa, poverty of spirit puts some special, indescribable imprint on the “most magnificent build” and causes an incomprehensible disgust.
A century later, the Russian poet and prose writer V. Ya. Bryusov spoke about the same thing, but in different words: “After death, the human soul continues to live its invisible life that eludes us. But if one of us was a poet, artist or architect, then after the death of the body the beauty of his soul lives both in heaven and on earth, captured in the form of a word, color or stone.”
And the Russian philosopher I. A. Ilyin tried to comprehend another secret - what is the beauty of the Russian soul. He compared it to a Russian song, in which “human suffering, deepest prayer, sweet love, and great consolation” inexplicably merge together.
Poems about the beauty of the soul
Poets also write about the fact that beauty has two downsides. One of the most remarkable poems on this topic is the work of Eduard Asadov “Two Beauties”. The author, seriously and jokingly at the same time, notes that two beauties rarely end up in the same place. As a rule, one interferes with the other. But people often don’t notice this and for a long time remain “short-sighted” to spiritual beauty. And only when its antipode “decently and strongly annoys”, “embarrassed” they begin to think about the truth.
At the end of the poem, the poet comes to one conclusion - at the end of life, two beauties always change. One is getting old, decrepit, succumbing to the merciless influence of time. And the other - the beauty of the soul - remains the same. She doesn’t know what wrinkles are, age, and doesn’t know how to count years. All she can do is burn brightly and smile.
Other poets about the eternal
The beautiful Russian poet Vasily Kapnist regrets the frailty of earthly beauty. He sadly notes that everything on earth is given one term - a moment. It disappears, and with it the beautiful Aurora, the meteor, and beauty will sink into the abyss. But what can defeat death? Only spirit. Neither time nor the grave can “devour” him. And only in him the color of beauty is eternal.
The talented Russian symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont also sings of the eternal beauty of love, suffering and renunciation. In his poem “There is only beauty in the world,” he writes that the gods of Hellas, and the blue sea, and waterfalls, and “heavy mountains of mountains,” no matter how beautiful they may be, cannot compare with the beauty of the soul of Jesus Christ, who agreed to voluntary suffering for the sake of humanity.
conclusions
So, if for centuries great minds have been talking about the same thing - about the eternity of the spirit and the frailty of the body, then why do we continue this senseless race for brilliance, splendor and picturesqueness? Israeli Kabbalist Michael Laitman claims that the soul is born again and again only to experience different states, as if trying on different clothes. And only after trying everything on and realizing that the pursuit of fame, wealth, external beauty and eternal youth carries nothing but emptiness and disappointment, the soul turns its gaze to the true, looks inside itself and seeks answers to all questions only from God.
In other words, the scientist says that cultivating the beauty of the body is nothing more than a necessary stage of development. After all, it is impossible at school to immediately jump from first grade to tenth grade and understand what trigonometry is if you are still practicing how to write beautiful numbers and letters in cursive. And, as the Arab philosopher D.H. Gibran said, there comes a moment when you perceive the world not as an image that you would like to see, and not as a song that you would like to hear, but as an image and a song that a person sees and hears, even if he closes his eyes and ears.