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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p2</ref>
<div style="color: #000000;">Love, Joy and Beauty are the fundamental determinates of the Divine Delight of Existence, and we can see at once that these are of the very stuff and nature of that Delight: they are not alien impositions on the being of the Absolute or creations supported by it but outside it; they are truths of its being, native to its consciousness, powers of its force of existence. </div><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/indeterminates-cosmic-determinations-and-the-indeterminable#p17</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. </div><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p16</ref></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Beauty is not sufficient in itself, it wants to become divine. Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great purification.</span>
<div style="color: #000000;">Beauty is the aesthetic instinct of man, and the good is his ethical instinct, and these two things are very important in human education and growth; </div>
<div style="color: #000000;">(The Mother, 25 May 1955)</div><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p39</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">It [aesthetic conscience] is the consciousness of beauty. Aesthetic means that which concerns beauty, art. There are people, for example, who move around in life and see landscapes, see people and things and have absolutely no sense of whether it is beautiful or not; and into the bargain, it makes no difference at all to them. They look at the sky, see whether there are any clouds, whether it will rain or be clear, for instance; or whether the sun is hot or the wind cold. But there are others—when they raise their eyes and look at a beautiful sky, it gives them pleasure, they say, "Oh! It is fine today, the sunrise is lovely today, the sunset is beautiful, the clouds have fine shapes." So, the first kind do not have an aesthetic conscience, the second have.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/1-june-1955#p3 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/1-june-1955#p3</ref></div>
<div style="color: #000000;">...from the supramental point of view beauty and harmony are as important as any other expression of the Divine. But they should not be isolated, set up apart from all other relations, taken out from the ensemble; they should be one with the expression of life as a whole. People have the habit of saying, "Oh, it is an artist!" as if an artist should not be a man among other men but must be an extraordinary being belonging to a class by itself, and his art too something extraordinary and apart, not to be confused with the other ordinary things of the world. </div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 28 July 1929)</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p15</ref></div>
== Different Ways of Perceiving Beauty ==