But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought and sold. They can be marketed and manufactured. The real standards, the ones set forth by the One who made me, are solid, knitted into me at my beginning. This beauty is true and real, and it lives within the heart. It is my heart that must be trained to recognize this beauty. .Angela Doll Carlson
About This Quote
The only way to see beauty is to train your heart. Your heart is the place where you experience love and understanding. The beauty of the world is found in the people around you, not in the things that you can look at and see. The things in this world that we think are beautiful are only lovely when you look at them in a certain way.
The beauty of these things can be seen when you take them out of their context and put them in the hands of someone else. Look at, for instance, a piece of artwork. When you look at it, it’s beautiful because you appreciate what it represents and why it was created.
But if I were to take that artwork and hang it on my wall, suddenly it loses all majesty and becomes just another piece of art on my wall. Your love needs to be transferred into something that will allow you to see its beauty and how it connects with other people’s love. You need to transfer your love into something that will give your heart the chance to experience its true worth and purpose.
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