“Beauty is not made.

Beauty is.”

 -Emily Dickinson

Creation does not create a world absent of beauty. As persons we have this idea of our separateness. Because of this we fail to see beauty. As the mystical poet Emily Dickinson reminds us “Beauty is.”

Notice that she is not adding anything conditional following these two worlds. Notice that she is not making beauty conditional or dependent.  What is Emily Dickinson saying? More to the point, what is she inviting? Does this woman know something we don’t or is this sense of the beautiful only something for poets?

If one has to be a poet to be and see beauty, then we place a boundary of conditionality around the experience of beauty.  Beauty, like happiness, is something that is best not pursued directly.

Creation created you to be the expression of beauty in form.  This does not mean that you are intended to be glamorous in form but grace in form.  Grace is the ability to walk in beauty.  Walking in beauty is the movement of form in free flow.

When you experience a sense of beauty and grace you are in tune with your essential being.  It is enough and forever enough.  When you are out of tune with this wavelength you have to have forms of compensation.

An Anamcara invites you to remember, “beauty is.” It is in every moment.  It is beyond definition.  This is your real source of joy and happiness.  It is a real sense of fulfilment.  In such connectedness there is no sense of needing other than the natural expansiveness that arises from such a connection.

One of the key ways in which to be the beauty you are and to expand is to cease judgement.  Notice how you judge yourself and others.  Indirectly, start to create a ground in which the seeds of beauty can bloom.  They do not grow in a soil that is fed toxic thoughts for oneself and others. They grow in the fertile soil of trust in the process of creation that is ever able to create.

Beauty arises out of appreciation.  Most of us spend very little time consciously expressing gratitude.  Many of us living in the Western world now live more prosperous and healthy lives than kings and queens of old. Our focus, which is promoted as our reason for being, is on what we do not have.

What we do not have is our ability to be attuned to what is the beauty within.  Without this attunement all is pseudo-beauty.  This is why we are surrounded with magazines and programs about the lives of the rich, glamorous and famous.  This is our collective metaphor of our longing for what we feel to be beautiful.

However, glossy magazines will not compensate for what cannot be created.  Faith and trust in our inner sense of self that is able to create unique expressions of beauty in each moment will give true fulfilment.  This is because it does this from an unlimited sense of abundance arising from the one true dynamic of Love.  This is unconditional and, as Emily Dickinson points out, it just is.

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