On happiness and beauty
(…a response to a post on the need to make a better world)
I’m not sure beauty can ever be found outside of ourselves. Whether we are conscious of it or not we govern, through our interpretation, how beautiful the world is. How beautiful our thoughts are is precisely how beautiful the world appears. Which means that to live in a blissful world we need to master inner bliss.
Of course we could remake the world to suit one persons tastes - but that would not please everyone and nor would it deliver reliable happiness to that person - unless it could be sustained inevitably.
For global happiness there can be only one path, summed up as ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’.
