Beauty is the ultimate force that can fight darkness. As Dwayne Bell defines it, it is a representation of your values. We all see different things when we find beauty, but I think that it is the force that motivated most of the brave persons who fought for their freedom in the past.
When one realizes one's beauty and one's worth then one creates one's own beauty. Telling someone that s/he isn't worthy/isn't beautiful just because s/he doesn't resemble an "established" standard is like asking for replicas. Thereby crushing the spirit of individualism, the same spirit that created great nations.
Women don't come from factories, neither does beauty. Calling for conformity is a popular way of killing the spirit of individual spirits, fascism knew that quite well. So is fear, shame, and ignorance. Things that beauty chases away.
Who are we to judge the beauty of others or to define it for them? No one can really define what makes a successful person, success for me may be reducing my carbon emissions and leading an ethical life, success for you may simply be becoming rich, for someone else it may be buying a gas-guzzling SUV. One defines one's own goals, one's own success, and one's own beauty.
When I describe an instance of beauty, or say that a woman beautiful, it means that that person is beautiful according to my values, according to what I see. In real life, one often mistakes beauty for ugliness and ugliness for beauty. There is no universal definition for beauty, and the day that definition is reached will be a very bad day for humanity. What we can easily describe is our own personal definition of beauty.
Beauty is like an arrow, it strikes us, and it inspires us. An arrow that can penetrate our minds. Maybe those arrows will one day guide us to do what's right.
Is there any damage caused by anyone saying that beauty is more determined by a woman's actions - what is commonly referred to as inner beauty - than by her external appearance? I know that many would claim that beauty is a combination of both, and I do agree to an extent, but I think that a woman's personality and determinism matter more than the shape of her legs or the state of her breasts. How can I be saying something so outrageous when all that I feature can be mistaken for a collection of external beauty?
I think that external beauty is limited to what a woman can do with a simple comb and scissors. Beauty can not be bought in $100 packages or a collagen treatment. That sort of image of beauty, backed up by communist-like propaganda-type of commercials and magazines, is merely a distraction. Why should a woman who is brave, unique, and intelligent spend 2-3 hours a day caring about how she looks like? Isn't this a waste of her time and her personal qualities?
Most women are beautiful by nature, we must help them free themselves of that beauty obsession and to let them do the things that are truly beautiful. They are not sculptures, and we should never marginalize their role to being "cute little things" who should stand aside and just inspire men to work hard - be real-life pin-ups. Women are capable of working and of exploiting their own potential, of building their own future, they can be beautiful and still manage to do all of those things, but I doubt that it will all be possible if they assume the role of "male motivators". Catalysts don't take part in a reaction after all, they just lowe the activation energy.
One may be motivated to work hard as to be able to offer his beloved partner a better life, but this is not the sole role of the partner, who may work just as hard to improve the common life that they share.
By analyzing the external factors that make a woman beautiful then we end up with an image that falls apart pretty quickly. Women don't come from a barbie factory machine, they are not cast into a perfect shape. We can claim that shapely long legs look good on all women, but there are women who look better in differently shaped legs. We can claim that D-cup breasts should be the golden standard, but some women look amazingly better in B-cup breasts. There is just no standard, and I don't think that real life beauty follows all those fashion-industry beauty standards anyway.
If I claim that all good successful men have to look good, what response do I expect to get? There are just too many examples out there that will prove that my claim is false. There is no actual separation between how a person looks on the outside and his/her inner personality. We have all come across people who posess a good deal of physical beauty, but who are repulsive. Physical beauty can inspire vanity and a sense of entitlement. Claiming that "spiritual" beauty can't exist without external beauty is somewhat absurd, as there is no real separation. Beauty is a whole quality, it is something that one can sense and see. Most of us have fallen in love more than once, and I tend to assume that every person's Isolde doesn't look like Nikkala. When one is in love, one sees beauty as the whole quality that it really is.
It is true that beauty can make a fleeting appearance in a free giggle, a quick smile, or a graceful movement of happiness. That appearance is seen as beauty by the "beholder", but it is not that leap into the air that makes a woman beautiful, it's what motivated her to leap into the air, her own sense of her own beauty. Most of us can safely say that Nikkala is beautiful, but it's not the shape of her body - that merely is what made her qualify as a model, it is what I assume to be inner values when I see her letting a carefree smile adorn her face. The smile is a secondary thing, not the primary "cause" of her beauty.
What is the use of bravery if one doesn't get to use it? "Beautiful" girls don't fight after all, they may break a nail.
There are no ghosts and corpses in beauty. The "soul" and the body should not be separated, one is whole, and so is one's beauty.
The "ugly angel" is not ugly, angels are not and can't be ugly. Women are not products, they don't have different ratings for physical beauty and inner beauty in which the lack of one makes the other useless.
If we claim that only physically beautiful women who possess qualities of true beauty are beautiful, then what we are creating is the ultimate imposter ideal. It's like we suddenly have a template, and it is like saying that all real-life women who can not qualify as models are either "mindless babes" or "ugly angels", i.e. are not beautiful. I think that such a claim can be easily contradicted through a short walk through a park, or a visit to the nearest secular charity organization, or even a simple look into the face of the person sleeping next to you in the morning.
Most females inherently know that they are beautiful, we should never attempt to undermine this sense of self-worth and the pursuit of happiness and personal qualities in the favor of an industry or an ultimate aphrodite. Artemis was just as beautiful, right?
We often come up with various reasons for being slaves to commercialism, for serving our own purposes without paying attention to others. The world around us is just full of advertisement that ratify greed. The super-ego driven actions provide much better satisfaction and fulfillment than any id-driven actions. However, this is something that not many people talk about, and something that an average ad never highlights.
Many may have experienced the pleasure of giving a gift to another person. Just seeing the happiness in the eyes of another human being and knowing that you were able to make someone's day can fill your heart with infinite joy and elation.
However, when you think about it you will probably realize that material presents are not of any real value. Flowers wither away, chocolate isn't that long-lasting, and any perfume, no matter how expensive it is, will evaporate into the air. What is the perfect present then?
Beauty. True beauty is immortal. That's why those ladies who share their beauty with the world have deserve all the respect that we can give them. Some of them may have the wrong motives, but the message is always the same. It is a value that we all share, no matter of what color or shape we may be. It is the value that connects us all, and the value that we should long for in times of conflict. Once we learn how to see the beauty there will no longer be any wars or any bullets.
We all can be beautiful if we take the time to discover our own beauty. It transcends the shape and form, curves and shadows. No matter how beautiful the external shape may be, it is nothing but the mere shell. Real beauty lies deep within a woman's/man's mind, and that is some form of beauty that never withers away, but that few persons manage to rediscover.
Real life can be like a raging sea, we start with a boat which holds our holy grail; our self-respect, our understanding that we are beautiful. Unfortunately, once the waves start rising we forget about the important values that we have on the boat. The sea just steals them away when we're too busy trying to survive.
I was discussing Humanlandscapes with Phill Miller, and he said: "My book is a great gift book for either valentines day or mothers day as a gift to a wife or girlfriend. It says eloquently to the women that "you are beautiful."... I believe that more exposure to beautiful and respectful images of the nude is healing for both men and women."
I do agree with him. This book is beautiful and can serve as a way for you to tell someone that you find him/her beautiful. It is a book of great value and quality, but that is not the point, and it is not the only way to give someone that message of trust and respect.
There are simple ways of doing so. Giving a person a source of inspiration can do, but why don't you become the source of that inspiration. To guide that other person along the way, and to help him/her discover his/her true self, his/her inner beauty, and his/her self-love. Isn't this the gift that those brave ladies are giving to us after all?
Whatever you decide to give someone else on any day to make them happy, just make sure that it has a lot of beauty in it. Humanlandscapes is book full of beauty, and so are you.
Hope for the journey is all that we need. It's the destination that keeps us rowing, it can seem real, but when we get there we can discover to our dismay that it's nothing but a mirage.
Every one of us has a different goal, a different destination that keeps him/her moving forward, but what if that destination turns out to be nothing but a figment of imagination. We often wish for things that actually make us suffer, what if that paradise is nothing but a disfigured hell?
I don't think that the problem lies in choosing the wrong destination, the problem is not spending time enjoying the journey, not feeling the spirit of the way.
We can reach the destination through greed or malice, but then we will probably realize that we have wasted our lives seeking the wrong pleasures, the wrong ideals. Shortcuts may offer temporary success, but they can never offer satisfaction.
There are a lot of optical illusions and things often aren't what they seem. However, there are things, derived from each other, that are always honest. They include beauty and ethics. Both are found in our surroundings and are just waiting to be discovered.
That's what we should hope for, the insight and the ability to discover beauty along the way, so that the journey is worthwhile, even if we arrive to the wrong island.
That's how we can build a good world.
How can we survive in a world of lies? We can take a look in the mirror, is what we see who we really are. Sometimes we can see beauty, at others we can see pure hypocrisy.
Just notice the reflection of pure beauty, of values gone-by, of a spirit that's carefree. Look at morality, staring you in the eye and asking you, how can't you see?!
We were born to be free. Shackled in chains we can no longer see, the beauty that was childhood's fantasy.
Why is it so, I shall wonder, but till then, how can we claim that we are alive when we smother the soul of humanity, beauty.
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fair numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies,
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces."
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme.
- Shakespeare's Sonnet XVII
Recommended by Jacques.
Beauty is the value that we all search for in life, we often die without experiencing all the beauty that life has to offer. It is the ultimate teacher and inspirer of all values and all the positive things in life.
Female beauty is one of the superior forms of beauty, for it is simple and is combined with the beauty of life itself. It can be the ultimate teacher and is an eternal source of happiness, for beauty does not wither.
It's a very powerful force, and that's why it's often feared and vilified, but when we listen to what it has to say, the world will defnitely be a better place.
A serpent sculpted by the hand of man
A seductress to entice
Hollow, to be filled
With their own vice
With a forked tongue speaks
A man in a dark gown
Conceal purity in this abyss
Our glory may find its death
What's hidden can be spoilt
Controlled, and filled with guilt
Contaminated by our whims
Manipulated and killed
The light always blinds the creatures of the night
In their darkness, we will rise.
A human born in darkness is blind
A miserable fiend
Afraid from the serpent's venom
When venom is all it drinks
Animal instict awakens
In its sanguine rivers
In murk it all arises
Yet another tragedy
Lust lingers in its bosom
It was raised to defile and murder
To violate all that's pure
To drown the world in blood.
"Everything that shines is a serpent"
Remember my son
Don't trust your heart
Don't look under the skin
Don't listen to their cries
Just look for them in the dark.
A new child is born
dressed as a snake
Another wing is ripped
Now is not the time for innocence
When innocence is mistaken for evil
and life is weaved into a nightmare
When the blood-stained hands are revered
And honest tongues aren't allowed to speak
How can it be otherwise?
A frenzy, a witchhunt
blame it all on the serpent
and our glory will never be gone
no antidote for the venom
Another head, another ornament
Held by the man with the forked tongue
Today's dose of the poison
Now my son, now you have a blindfolded soul.
I do not think that what makes Nikkala Stott so beautiful is her body or its proportions, a lot of statues have the same "perfect" proportions. It's deeper than that. A primate looks different from a human male, and is about as far from a man, it's really not about the exotic look, it's about much more than that.
I think that it's all in her eyes, in the serenity in her facial expression, and in the trust that her nudity represents.
She offers a glimpse into a world that transcends our own, a world of morality and free ideas. A world where all human beings are born equal, where exploitation is an obsolete word, where jails are turned into schools¸ where wars do not exist, where you can wish anything unpleasant away, where there are no pressures, where there are no stress-related diseases, where there are no borders, where we are the intelligent force that protects nature and the universe. It's a dream that reality always shutters.
Her being there makes it a reality, maybe for less than a fleeting nanosecond, but a nanosecond can sometimes be worth a lifetime.
A lot of websites out there seem to be promoting a new philosophy that it's okay to look at females and even to imagine how they look naked. Well, I have made my position clear before, but I think that I can elucidate a few points on that subject before moving on.
I think that it depends on your attitude and how you look. Looking at females randomly and imagining them naked is somewhat like looking at expensive cars and imagining how it will be like to be behind the wheel, it sounds like an innocent fantasy, but it promotes the possessive instinct that a lot of people have, and women are not cars or objects to be controlled, collected, or enjoyed.
Some say that it's okay to imagine them naked, but what's so special about hollow nudity? What's the use of a map if you're not able to see the big picture and to let it guide your way? We have been saying that nudity is about beauty and not about sexuality, that's it's about respecting women, for quite a long time. We will be contradicting ourselves if we suddenly start advocating the sexualization of human females.
What do you feel when someone stares at you? What if it's at a public location? Do you feel comfortable? What if they're not looking you in the eye but are staring at your pants/chest? I think that you will feel very comfortable.
No one has said where the line is to be drawn, if we start supporting optic harassment then we can easily start accepting the verbal harassment of females as a mere display of appreciation. There's a difference between going up to a female, introducing yourself, saying that you think that she looks beautiful and that you're interested in knowing the characteristics of her personality that augmented her beauty, and addressing her in a demeaning manner or just making a comment about how her body looks.
I think that there's nothing wrong with telling a woman that she looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be considered an intrusion on that woman's privacy, so whatever you choose to do, always remember that those females are to be respected, not patronized. Reducing a woman's worth to how beautiful her body is is the pure essence of sexism.
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