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<div style="color: #000000;">... there is a beauty of thought, a beauty of feeling. This is something we perceive very often; when someone has done a very noble deed, very generous, very unselfish, quite spontaneously we say, "It is beautiful!" And it's true, it gives the sense of beauty.</div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 1 June 1955)</spandiv>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">If you compare the human body as it now is with a higher ideal of beauty, obviously very few would pass the examination. In almost everyone there is a sort of unbalance in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">proportions; we are so accustomed to it that we do not notice it, but if we look from the standpoint of the higher beauty, it becomes visible; very few bodies would bear comparison with perfect beauty. There are a thousand reasons for this unbalance but only one remedy, to instil into the being this instinct, this sense of true beauty, a supreme beauty which will gradually act on the cells and make the body capable of expressing beauty. This is still a thing which is not known: the body is infinitely more plastic than you believe. You must have surely noticed (perhaps very vaguely) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">'''that those who live in an inner peace, in an inner beauty, a light, and perfect goodwill, have an expression which is not quite the same as of people who live in bad thoughts, in the lower part of their nature. '''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When the human being is at his best, above his base animality, he reflects something which is not there when he lives in a state of bestiality.</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 25 January 1951)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-january-1951#p27</ref> <div style="color: #000000;">Usually one feels pleasure or joy or enjoyment due to this thing or due to that—from the most material things to things psychological or even mental. For example, to take a mental thing, you read a sentence which gives you a great joy, for it brings you a light, a new understanding; so that joy is a joy which has an object, it is because you read that sentence that you feel this joy, if you had not read the sentence, you would not have felt the joy. In the same way, when you hear beautiful music or when you see a beautiful picture or a beautiful landscape, that brings you joy; without those things you would not have felt that joy; it is these which brought you the joy. It is a joy which has an object, which has a cause.</div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 5 December 1956)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p17</ref>

<div style="color: #000000;">There are people who are just like beautiful animals—all their movements are harmoniousUsually one feels pleasure or joy or enjoyment due to this thing or due to that—from the most material things to things psychological or even mental. For example, their energies are spent harmoniouslyto take a mental thing, their uncalculating efforts call in energies all the time and they are always happy; but sometimes they have no thoughts in their headyou read a sentence which gives you a great joy, sometimes they have no feelings in their heartfor it brings you a light, they live a new understanding; so that joy is a joy which has an altogether animalish life. I have known people like object, it is because you read that sentence that: beautiful animals. They were handsomeyou feel this joy, their gestures were harmoniousif you had not read the sentence, their forces quite balanced and they spent without reckoning and received without measureyou would not have felt the joy. They were in harmony with In the material universal forces and they lived in same way, when you hear beautiful music or when you see a beautiful picture or a beautiful landscape, that brings you joy. They could ; without those things you would not perhaps have told you that they were happy—joy with them was so spontaneous felt that joy; it was natural—and they would have been still less able to tell is these which brought you whythe joy. It is a joy which has an object, which has a cause. (The Mother, for their intelligence was not very developed5 December 1956<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p17</ref></div>

<span div style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There are people who are just like beautiful animals—all their movements are harmonious, their energies are spent harmoniously, their uncalculating efforts call in energies all the time and they are always happy; but sometimes they have no thoughts in their head, sometimes they have no feelings in their heart, they live an altogether animalish life. I have known people like that: beautiful animals. They were handsome, their gestures were harmonious, their forces quite balanced and they spent without reckoning and received without measure. They were in harmony with the material universal forces and they lived in joy. They could not perhaps have told you that they were happy—joy with them was so spontaneous that it was natural—and they would have been still less able to tell you why, for their intelligence was not very developed. (The Mother, 13 January 1951)</spandiv><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p15</ref>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">That's a psychological problem. It depends on where their sense of beauty is located. One may have a physical see of beauty, a vital sense of beauty, a mental sense of beauty. If one has a moral sense of beauty—a sense of moral beauty and nobility—one will never be cruel. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">One will always be generous and magnanimous in all circumstances. But as men are made of many different pieces.... For instance, I was thinking about all the artists I knew—I knew all the greatest artists of the last century or the beginning of this century, and they truly had a sense of beauty, but morally, some of them were very cruel. When the artist was seen at his work, he lived in a magnificent beauty but when you saw the gentleman at home, he had only a very limited contact with the artist in himself and usually he became someone very vulgar, very ordinary. Many of them did, I am sure of it. But those who were unified, in the sense that they truly lived their art—those, no; they were generous and good.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-march-1954#p33</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But for one who has more inner sensitivity, appearances are no longer deceptive and he can perceive the ugliness hidden beneath a pretty face and the beauty concealed beneath a mask of ugliness.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-297-298#p6</ref></span>