Tag Archives: beauty

Be Yourself

As Oscar Wilde so succinctly put it, “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”

Society has this need to shape and mold us, to make us “be acceptable”. Perhaps this has never been more strongly true then it is right now.

Becoming our most authentic selves, learning to be true to ourselves, is sometimes a lifetime journey. But it does not have to be! We are not born with the masks that society encourages or demands that we wear. We acquire them to “get along” and to “fit in”.

Look to nature as an example. There are no games; nature is authentic. No giraffe is wasting his life hating his “too long” neck and trying to be the best zebra ever.

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Nature’s Reflection

Nature offers many opportunities for reflection and contemplation. Each aspect of Earth’s beauty has its own personality and message, reflecting us back to ourselves, bestowing realizations that we may not have come to in any other way.

The Earth is our teacher, when we tune in.

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Gaia Awaits You

Gaia, the Earth Goddess

I step from boat to island shore
and she waits for me,
her warm, soft breeze
caresses my cheek,
her lush, verdant scent
fetchingly whispers.

She seduces me.

A gleaming azure sky
calms my agitated mind,
her supple trees drape
the curving roadside,
a satin emerald cloak
befitting the Goddess.

She shimmers for me.

Brilliant sunlight dances
on a turquoise ocean,
waves glittering with diamonds
invite me to play,
graceful sea birds soaring above
call me to be free.

She shines for me.

Exotic languorous lizards
ancient as all time
meander lazily on my path,
scoffing at all clocks,
coaxing me to relax into her
warm, tranquil rhythm.

She soothes me.

Time slips away and
becomes meaningless here,
she feeds my soul
with her enduring grace,
her heart beats to mine
and mine becomes hers.

She saves me.

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The Beauty Cure

Would you say that you are cognizant of the beauty around you, day-to-day?

Appreciating the beauty of life is a powerful antidote for the negativity prevalent in society right now. Ugliness can tend to taint everything around it and drag everyone down. You know the saying, “One bad apple spoils the whole bushel.”

Resist the effect of the bad apple. When you persist in seeing the beauty in spite of the negativity, you become an agent of positive change. People around you pick up on this energy, your vibe, and you uplift them too. The world becomes a better place, rippling outward from you.

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Seeing Beauty

In our world and society today, it can be very easy to be blind to the wide variety and depth of beauty surrounding us. Firstly, our society tends to create tight definitions of beauty. Secondly, we are deeply distracted by our technologies.

Beauty is everywhere, and nature is a wonderful teacher for seeing it. She hones our ability to see, “seeing” being a very different thing from “looking”. When we truly see something, we enter the realm of feeling it too. Walk in nature and practice seeing. A whole world of beauty will then gradually reveal itself to you, everywhere.

"Beauty surrounds us, but ususally we need to be in a garden to know it" Rumi