Beauty. Beauty is the experience of consciousness beholding itself. In so far as my consciousness in its structure, movement and content is like that of every other man and woman beauty is universal; in so far as my consciousness is individual and personal so is my experience of beauty. It may that this experience of beauty goes back to our infancy and even before that where desire and fulfillment were one and indistinguishable. It may even be that this initial experience becomes the energy or eros to create or seek out beauty. If so, its beginning is a gift that propels us out into the world to find ourselves, to make ourselves whole again. In so far as the personal and individual aspect of consciousness dominates, it tends to become narcissism, but in so far as consciousness seeks its universal reflection it becomes love of beauty itself. And so it is also with truth and virtue. Truth is the correspondence of consciousness to reality. Virtue is making it so.
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