Beauty - 4 views

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  #1 Joe Bennett on 20 May 14

   

  My mother would say to me, "You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you." And these words plagued and bothered me, I didn't really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume - it was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant when she said, "you can't eat beauty" was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us - what is fundamentally beautiful - is compassion - for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul - it is...the beauty of a spirit. (Lupita Nyong'o)

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">My mother would say to me, "You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you." And these words plagued and bothered me, I didn't really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume - it was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant when she said, "you can't eat beauty" was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us - what is fundamentally beautiful - is compassion - for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul - it is...the beauty of a spirit. (Lupita Nyong'o)</div>

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