Reflections on Inner Beauty

• Inner beauty is the source out of which efforts, work, to add good to other people’s lives evolves.

• Inner beauty is the source of appreciation of natural beauty, natural rhythms. By tuning into the beauty of wild nature we enhance, give power to, our own internal beauty.

• Inner beauty allows a person the ability to draw out of others their own inner beauty. One person’s inner beauty encourages the inner beauty of others.

• Inner beauty grows out of a deep relationship with one’s inner world. Inner beauty is a product of comfort with oneself.

• Inner beauty is both the cause and a result of an absence of worry.

• Conflict has an adverse effect on inner beauty.

• Exhaustion, pushing the limits of one’s energy has an adverse effect on inner beauty.

• Impatience, hubris, the desire to dominate others, to be proven right, has an adverse affect on inner beauty.

• Tuning into the inner beauty of others, and working at improving one’s ability to tune into the inner beauty of others, enhances inner beauty.

• Work of beauty, work that celebrates beauty, celebrates life, celebrates the great mystery enhances one’s internal beauty.

• Take care of yourself. Get enough rest. Eat well but not too much. Get exercise. Drive with courtesy.

• Hang out with people of inner beauty – peaceful people, people who strive to add to the lives of others.

Journaling questions:

• How do you define inner beauty?

• How would you describe your inner beauty?

• What steps or practices would enhance your inner beauty?

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