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Aesthetic Sense Compilation (view source)
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''Q. What does "the beauty of the hideous" mean?''
''A.''It is always the same realisation presented from different angles, expressed through various experiences: the realisation that everything is a manifestation of the Supreme, the Eternal, the Infinite, immutable in his total perfection and in his absolute reality. That is why, by conquering our mind and its ignorant and false perceptions we can, through all things, enter into contact with this Supreme Truth which is also the Supreme Beauty and the Supreme Love, beyond all our mental and vital notions of beauty and ugliness, the good and the bad. [Based on Aphorism 48—I knew my mind to be conquered when it admired the beauty of the hideous, yet felt perfectly why other men shrank back or hated.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-48#p3</ref>
=== Expression through Art - Painting and Poetry ===
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Without outer and inner discipline, one can achieve nothing in life, either spiritually or materially. All those who have been able to create something beautiful or useful have always been persons who have known how to discipline themselves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-june-1934#p3</ref> <center>~</center>
Be sincere and absolute in your consecration to the Divine and your life will become harmonious and beautiful. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p9</ref>
==By Detachment ==
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It is infinitely more difficult to tell a story beautiful from beginning to end than to write a story ending with a sensational event or a catastrophe. Many authors, if they had to write a story which ends happily, beautifully, would not be able to do it—they do not have enough imagination for that. Very few stories have an uplifting ending, almost all end in a failure—for a very simple reason, it is much more easy to fall than to rise.(The Mother, 26 February 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-february-1951#p23</ref>
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Let beauty be your constant ideal.The beauty of the soul
The beauty of sentiments
The beauty of thoughts. The beauty of the action. The beauty in the work. So that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an expression of pure and harmonious beauty.
Spiritual beauty has a contagious power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p3</ref>
There is, behind all things, a divine beauty, a divine harmony: it is with this that we must come into contact; it is this that we must express. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p60</ref>
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