if beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, then…

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

You’ve probably heard that phrase more than you’ve thought about it, but what does it actually mean? On its face it should be clear and self-explanatory, not much thought necessary. But it is necessary. It’s important to know what words mean. what they can mean, or could mean. Isn’t that what it means to fully understand something? To understand it’s implications and potential?

Now, there’s only eight words in the phrase, but the most important are the first and last. What first one is, and what it says about the nature of the last. What beauty is, and what that says about the nature of its beholder.

According to the dictionary beauty is defined as.

Now, if beauty is defined by its quality then what is the nature of this quality? Beautiful is the highest quality there is, to be beautiful something must be within this highest state. Its most Divine state because beauty is what is Divine, and what is Divine is beautiful. Otherwise it would not have the power to bring pleasure to our senses.

Beauty can only be in the eye of the beholder because beauty is not something that can be attained, only perceived. Beauty cannot be obtained which is why we seek to express it. To express it, we must make it. To make it, we must learn it as a skill. Beauty is the expression of mastery. Beauty cannot be taught or attained, only mastery can. Beauty is the byproduct of expression. Of what is being expressed, not aesthetics but an idea. Beauty is the expression of a craft well made, not something made to be beautiful. Beauty is what makes a thing.

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, then to be beautiful is to be Divine. To be Divine is to be Love because:

Love is God, and God is Love.

Thus it must be…

The Divine is in the eyes of the beholder.

if that’s true

The beholder has the Divine within.

which means

The beholder sees with Divine Eyes.

The beholder sees through the Divine.

The beholder sees with the Divine.

and

The beholder sees that which is Divine.

so it is…

God is in the eyes of the beholder.

The beholder has God within.

The Beholder sees with God's Eyes.

The Beholder sees with God.

The Beholder sees that which is God.

The beholder sees what God sees.

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, then the beholder has a holy different way of seeing things.

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