Thoughts about beauty assaulted me this weekend and I realized I can be fooled into thinking it is a physical concept...
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on earth and all ye need know. - John Keats
In the movie Don Juan DeMarco, Marlon Brando is asking Johnny Depp how he attracts so many women. Depp, playing the role of Don Juan, replies (in Castillan accent):
By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it is true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect... because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me in the way they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that lies within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it.
How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful! - Song of Songs 1:15
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