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<div style="color:#000000;">Aesthetic Sense </div><br>
<div style="color:#666666;">The ability to perceive beauty even where it is not apparent and to welcome beauty into one's daily life.</div><br><br>
= What is Aesthetic Sense? =
<div style="margin-left:1.27cm0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Perfection: '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We think of perfection as something that must be acquired, a state of goodness, absent of all things bad and ugly. This is a very divisive understanding of the word. Perfection is a state of wholeness; it is the absence of nothing. However, this is not to say that we must accept and enjoy ugliness. When the being is harmonised around the soul center, perfection becomes a natural harmonious outflow. This is where purification comes in.</span></div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Purification: '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The disharmonious movements of our being can be conquered by acknowledging the transformative power of beauty. Little by little, the parts of us that are not in harmony with the whole can be refined and transformed by directing the light towards them i.e. becoming conscious of them and offering them. </span>
<div style="color:#000000;">When guiding a child who is making any kind of art, one must encourage the child to express their truth rather than emphasising technique. Probe them to make paintings inspired by their surroundings, but do not insist on details. It is their impression or experience of the object that needs capturing. It is that which authenticates their relationship with beauty. </div>
<div style="color:#000000;">Efforts must be made to help the child see the inherent beauty in all things. When a child is exposed to ugliness, it is not advisable to say that that is how life is. Instead, one must say that there is a beauty behind this ugliness waiting to be realised. This creates a sense of possibility as opposed to the fatalism of the former statement. </div>