dear doris. what is true beauty? why do we perceive a home or human to be beautiful or not?
issue 31 ♡ beauty is be-ing exactly as you are in this state of being. be-lieve it to be truth.
dear doris. what is the true meaning of beauty? why do we perceive a casa or custodian or situation/scene beautiful or not? love beau beau
dear beau
i share my earth-bound experience on how my lens was shaped to see beauty in part I. then i tune into my higher self aka doris through meditation and journaling in part II to answer your question from a higher perspective. this ties in with previously published issue 21 creativity as a lens to life and issue 26 when you begin to create home. kindly note that ‘god’ can be substituted for any vernacular or venerable you prefer and ‘heaven’ for the etheric realm that resonates with you.
part I.
when my folks come to visit, they pick and prod at our home — at her eighty-one year old lady character and are aghast that anyone could see any brick of beauty in her — that we picked an ugly-deco-duckling. they cannot, for the life and lens of them, see anything cute in her 1940’s bungalow bones.
when i told my mum that our home, the lady california was featured in a glossy magazine and would she care to see it, she replied “why would anyone take photos of this place? is it because its sooooo old?”. in the eyes of my mother, who moved to australia as a young immigrant woman in the mid-seventies from hong kong — it was unfathomable that our home could be featured as anything except a knockdown.
when i showed my mother love is. — a book i wrote and illustrated a couple years ago, she exclaimed “who would read this? why would anyone buy this? who drew these pictures?”. she could not for the current-life of her, see any value let alone beauty or rationale for its creation. she doesn’t get it. and this is how i grew up — with the repetitive notion that art and creation were impractical and pointless, you could never make a living out of it, that anything old or vintage was considered unattractive, unbecoming and therefore undesirable — while deep in my libertine heart i knew this to be untruths.
and it is only recently that i have come to terms with this — that my appreciation for old things, old homes and old souls may never be applauded by them in this incarnation. that my life’s work and purpose/passion projects may never be valued by them before they pass. that their lens attachments are set in another configuration to my own — each shaped and warped by our personal experiences and past lives and neither of them are right or wrong, just diffused and different.
and it is only recently that i switched my own narrow lens to a wider angle lens to see that after many years of feeling like a misunderstood and misaligned mis-fit, that these souls i chose to incarnate as a child to, are indeed my teachers too. their perception of the world is a constant reminder that what we see as wonderful or woeful is calibrated accordingly to our spiritual pre-sets — and there is deep-set beauty and calm in accepting diverse and divergent views, no matter how micro or macro, close-up or wide, dusty or distorted the lens.
part II.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. the soul who is busy be-ing, being themselves, be-ing be-autiful is all about be-ing in the world and be-ing one with your surroundings.
there is a frequency at play where the vibrations and symmetry collide cataclysmically to cause an explosion of serotonin in ones brain — we are all conditioned to this, all of us are weak to this combination/law of symmetry and molecular makeup of features in the right or left place and seeming like they are just right for our eyes adjusting to the ‘perfection’ in the matrix.
the problem with equality, equanimity and equilibrium is that we are not all privy to this so-called perfection. we all have our kooks and adjustments and tweaks and alignments this way or that way — like a sculptor has come along and pinched the clay that formed your nose or tweaked your eye to point that way or muffled your hair to sit long and wavy or tousled to be short and curly.
the choices we make before we land in our incarnation has to do with our mission/quest. the way we look/appear in our form is deliberately chosen. your ‘avatar’ or body is a pre-planned persona for us souls to navigate life here on earth.
you may have chosen to look like this to increase your motion of influence or you may have picked a skin colour to understand inequality or you may have picked a shade of hair that is predestined to turn heads. this is all dependent on your age/time you land in for your incarnation.
sometimes the idea of beauty changes drastically from era to era and what was once celebrated in society is no longer or what shape and size you choose to be is no longer the ‘standard’ size of a human celebrated in the current moment in time and space. whatever the case, know that physicality was a choice. know that is was apart of your mission — to look how you look and how you may be perceived.
but know that despite all that, there is a bright spark within in all, a spark from source/god that can be lit and turn into flames of heart or hot-ness even, that the true light and shadow of beauty shines through you, inside and out, beaming from every pore, every orifice, every cell of your be-ing. that despite what may be deemed as asymmetry is actually perfect — as there is no creation of god/source incarnate that is imperfect.
all is beautiful when we look within ourselves and allow be-auty, be-ingness to be. allowing ourselves to be exactly as we are, allows the light of beauty to beam into our hearts so that we know, not just see, that beauty is beyond a feeling or lens but a deep knowing and resonance of luminosity and light fractals permeating into your soul.
just be — the beauty is simply be-ing exactly as you are in this state of being, be-lieve it to be truth. feel that it is the be-lief of god and source and divinity.
big be-autiful love
love d(oris)
ps. love this lens on beauty from a poet’s perspective by
my first picture book love is. captures the moments of nirvana we experience as humans on earth. available via kawa heart studio ♡ limited edition kids love is. tee
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