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== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A True & Wide Consciousness</span> ==
 
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are two kinds of beauty. There is that universal beauty which is seen by the inner eye, heard by the inner ear etc.—but the individual consciousness responds to some forms, not to others, according to its own mental, vital and physical reactions. There is also the aesthetic beauty which depends on a particular standard of harmony, but different race or individual consciousnesses form different standards of aesthetic harmony.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/beauty-in-women#p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/beauty-in-women#p18</ref>
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For instance, if your consciousness is limited to one place, that is, it is a national consciousness (the consciousness of any one country), what is </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">for one country is not </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">for another.</span>
<div style="color:#000000;">Only those who have developed a little artistic taste, have travelled much and seen many things have widened their consciousness and they are no longer so sectarian. (The Mother, 21 October 1953)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-october-1953#p60</ref>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">If you have the true consciousness, you experience this joy of seeing, of being in a conscious contact with something very beautiful, very harmonious, and then that's all. (The Mother, 9 February 1955)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p7</ref>
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Artistic taste is pleased with beautiful things and is itself beautiful.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p1</ref></u></span>