World Beauty

There are two common sayings used today. One is “selective hearing,” and at least one contestant in every beauty pageant always answers “world peace” during the question segment of the contest. What I and many others are discovering about life, from both a spiritual and scientific perspective, is that our conscience has a significant effect on the reality we experience.

Sayings like selective hearing and world peace are statements of what we do and desire. With that, I want to introduce a new saying. World Beauty. Ironically when we gather with our local spiritual communities and churches, we most often misuse our conscience by selectively limiting and acknowledging God’s virtue in operation. For many, the main reason we attend a Sunday morning spiritual gathering is that we see the beauty in the person standing on the stage. What we miss is the beauty inside everyone else. By beauty, I am talking about the virtue and God-like qualities that all humans possess.

We desire a beautiful world of peace, but we fail to see and acknowledge the beauty in every ordinary person. That is because we participate in selective seeing which finds and complements the divinity only in our cultural leaders. With 7.5 billion of us, we need to see and speak forth the good that resides in every person and not just our role models and group leaders. Being aware of the goodness in another person is one of the most empowering things we can do to bring about a beautiful world. In quantum physics, there is a theoretical experiment called Schrodinger’s cat and there is also the dual slit experiment with its many variations. In both cases, the conscious observer is the determining factor for the outcome of these experiments.

World beauty is a real possibility for human experience. What is required is for us to see it. We need judgment that finds beauty, love, and peace in the fabric of our reality. To experience world beauty, we must see it in more than just our leaders, role models, and celebrities. We need to see it in every one of our fellow human beings. We need a practice of selective seeing that will produce the desire of our hearts, which is world beauty.