the beauty

  One day, a man with a serious illness was wheeled into a hospital room where another patient was resting on a bed next to the window. As the two became friends, the one next to the window would look out of it and then spend the next few hours delighting his bedridden companion with vivid descriptions of the worldoutside 

Some days he would describe the beauty of the trees in the park across the hospital and how the leaves danced in the wind. On other days, he would entertain his friend with a step-by-step account of the things people were doing as they walked by the hospital.


Intense hate 
As time went on, the bedridden man grew frustrated at his inability to observe the wonders his friend described. He grew envious and began to dislike him. The envy soon turned into intense hate.


One night, after a particularly bad bout of coughing, the patient next to the window had difficulty breathing. Instead of pressing the button and calling the doctor for help, the other man chose to do nothing. The next morning, the patient who had given his friend so much happiness by recounting the scene outside the window was pronounced dead and wheeled out of the hospital room.


Selfleslove s 

The other man immediately asked to be shifted to the bed next to the window and it was done. But as he looked out the window, he discovered something that left him cold: the window faced a stark brick wall. His roommate had conjured up the incredible scenes that he described from his imagination as a loving gesture to make the world of his friend a little bit better during a difficult time. He had acted out of selfless love.


Fulfilling life 
This story never fails to create a shift in my own perspective when I think about it. To live happier, more fulfilling lives, when we encounter a difficult circumstance, we must keep shifting our perspective and continually ask ourselves, "Is there a wiser, more enlightened way of looking at this seemingly negative situation?"


Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists ever, is reported to have said that we live on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies.


Shift in perspective 
How's that for a shift in perspective? Given this information, are your troubles really that big? Are the problems you have experienced or the challenges you might currently be facing really as serious as you have made them out to be?


We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savour the process. 

       

The Beauty is necessary for humans," says eco-philosopher Henryk Skolimowski. He adds: "Without beauty we shrink. 

This shrinking is manifested in various 'civilisational' diseases, in states of depression, apathy, hopelessness that jointly undercut the roots of our existence. Beauty is an expression of the coherence of life. Plotinus says that the more beautiful the object, the more intensively does it exist." Poet Gabriela Mistral says that beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.

People have been obsessed with beauty since the evolution of the universe. A living being is more beautiful than a non-living one. Beautiful and natural landscapes evoke beauty in the eyes of the beholder and convey the message of an intensive and vibrant life. Himalayan peaks topped with snow look enchanting as they convey the message of life's sustainability.

A joy forever 

Beauty evokes a host of emotions, too numerous to enumerate here. Suffice it to say that it is imperative for the enhancement of life; it is enchanting and demanding; creates attraction and attachment and generates love that explodes energy for creation. Since time immemorial, man has been obsessed with beautiful things, places and people. Whatever is beautiful is worth possessing. We can't seem to have enough of it and want to possess more and more.

On the other hand, we stay away from ugliness and make all kinds of efforts to dispel ugliness from our environment, from our lives, and from our world. Ugliness is depressing and evokes in us a feeling of hopelessness, while beauty blooms with liveliness and hope.  

We want to live amidst natural beauty too and are always looking for natural beauty in the landscape around us. Beauty is an inexhaustible source of joy and has the power of healing too. True beauty illuminates the soul. It is, in fact, food for the soul.

the univers is so beautiful. Everything in this space is so enchanting, exciting and attractive. TheEarth is a true beauty, the most beautiful planet in the whole universe. The universe has woven this beauty into its natural landscape through the evolution of life and the natural, physical changes it has undergone over millions of years.

The beautiful colours of nature are a reflection of divine light, a source of universal creativity.