“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a
deep loving concern.”
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Is this true for you?
I was just telling a friend that often - perhaps always - when I meet a deeply beautiful person, I learn that that person has struggled through suffering and triumphed over a significant challenge.
It seems to me that every deeply beautiful person I know has faced some kind of death. If not an actual physical death, he and she have experienced the death of a dream or an ego death.
Often, the most beautiful people among us have had their beauty polished in a twelve step program or have been transformed on some other spiritual path.
Today, may be we hopeful about everything and respectful of everyone.
If we meet a challenge of any kind, let's try to see it as an opportunity to become more beautiful ourselves.
If we encounter a person who seems "far-from-beautiful," let's remember the Mother Teresa approach and try to see Jesus in disguise.
With love and
respect for all,
Charlene
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BEAUTY: May your deeds reflect its depth.
(from The Twelve Gifts of Birth)
