Beauty

Who is willing to hear a quiet voice of reasonableness, truth, goodness and possibly even beauty? 

Who is willing to read the words of the person associated with that voice?

Who ignores the humanity of that person, and why?

How do you define the beautiful, and why?

How do you tell the difference between a suitably beautiful celebration of peaceful living and a vulgar extravagance? 

What, if anything, do you appreciate about beauty?

You may associate appreciation with a deepening of understanding of aesthetically pleasurable experiences.

You may associate beauty with tastefulness.

You may associate beauty with fashion.

You may associate beauty with art.

You may associate beauty with health.

You may associate beauty with perfection.

You may associate beauty with attraction.

Do you ever associate beauty with civility?

True civility is immensely elegant.  It is a beautifully shining example of enlightened self expression.

Perhaps you prefer to equate the beautiful with the pretty, the cute, the young, the fresh, the healthy, the happy, the picturesque and the comfortable.

You may not usually associate the beautiful with the political.

How have you most recently been contributing to the harmonious interplay of beauty, understanding and magnificence, and where, and why?  

How have you been investing in those practices?