Beauty of the soul: quotes and poems of great people

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

What is beauty? About what is hidden under this concept, there have been endless disputes since the beginning of the creation of the world. Oscar Wilde said that beauty has as many meanings as a person has moods. But this is about the visible, about the tip of a beautiful iceberg. And what is hidden under the dark water column is the beauty of the human soul. There is more discussion about her. We'll talk about that.

The essence of the world

There is an opinion that in our time they talk less and less about spirituality, about what the true beauty of the soul is, and more and more pay attention to the external, to what you can see, feel, buy or sell. Is it so? Perhaps this is true. But on the other hand, the essence of the world does not change. There have always been and will be rich and poor, truth and lies, sincerity and hypocrisy, love and hate, black and white. Everything is. The essence does not change, only new means appear. This means that the conversation about what the beauty of the soul is does not lose its relevance. And it's time to remember the words of brilliant writers,poets, great philosophers, religious figures and many others.

Where does the soul live?

Every person has a soul. It is difficult to disagree with this statement. Nobody even tries. The only thing that is still being argued about is where it lives, in which part of the body and whether it continues to live after the death of the body.

On the one hand, from a scientific point of view, these are very interesting questions. On the other hand, does it really matter where? It can be in the solar plexus, and in the heart, and in the head. The main thing is that it is true, unique and inimitable, like a drawing on a fingertip. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho argues that each of us is not a body endowed with a soul, but a soul, part of which is visible and is called the body.

The outstanding Lebanese prose writer and philosopher Gibran Khalil Gibran argued that the spirit is primary. He wrote that the beauty of the soul is like an invisible root that goes deep into the earth, but nourishes the flower, giving it color and fragrance.

Ancient Greek philosophers

Since Aristotle, many philosophers have argued that beauty is a twofold concept. There is beauty of the body and beauty of the soul. Under the first understand the proportionality of parts, attractiveness, grace. All the same Aristotle said that such beauty is understood and appreciated by the common people, who are accustomed to perceive and feel the world with only five basic senses. One who marvels at such beauty is "only a little different from animals" relying only on their instincts.

Otherwisethe matter is with the inner world of man. Other laws operate there, which means that everything that happens among its vast latitudes is captured by other feelings. Plato argued that the beauty of the soul is tangible only by virtuous people, because the beautiful and the bad cannot coexist, one excludes the other.

Echoes him and our contemporary - Paulo Coelho, who says that if a person is able to notice the beautiful, it is only because he wears it inside. The world is a mirror reflecting our true.

The beauty of the soul: quotes from writers and poets

The fact that beauty and soul are identical concepts, not only ancient Greek philosophers spoke. The classics of world literature wrote about this and our contemporaries continue to discuss it. Let's give some examples. The 18th-century German poet and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was convinced that even the most ordinary-looking body is transformed by spiritual beauty. And vice versa, the poverty of the spirit puts some special, indescribable imprint on the “most magnificent constitution” and causes an incomprehensible disgust.

A century later, the Russian poet and prose writer V. Ya. Bryusov spoke about the same, but in other words: “After death, the human soul continues to live its invisible and elusive life. But if one of us was a poet, artist or architect, then after the death of the body, the beauty of his soul lives both in heaven and on earth, imprinted in the form of a word, color or stone.”

And the Russian philosopher I. A. Ilyin tried to comprehend another secret - what is the beauty of the Russian soul. Hecompared it with a Russian song, in which "human suffering, and the deepest prayer, and sweet love, and great consolation" inexplicably merge together.

Poems about the beauty of the soul

Poets also write about the fact that beauty has two reverse sides. One of the most remarkable poems on this subject is the work of Eduard Asadov "Two Beauties". The author, seriously and jokingly at the same time, notes that two beauties rarely find themselves in the same place. As a rule, one interferes with the other. But people often do not notice this and for a long time remain "myopic" to the beauty of the soul. And only when its antipode "decently and strongly annoys", "embarrassed" begin to think about the true.

At the end of the poem, the poet comes to one conclusion - by the end of life, two beauties always change. One is aging, decrepit, succumbing to the ruthless influence of time. And the other - the beauty of the soul - remains the same. She does not know what wrinkles are, age and does not know how to count the years. All she can do is burn brightly and smile.

Other poets about the eternal

The beautiful Russian poet Vasily Kapnist regrets the frailty of earthly beauty. He sadly notes that everything on earth is given one time - a moment. It disappears, and with it the beautiful Aurora, the meteor, and beauty will sink into the abyss. But what can conquer death? Only spirit. Neither time nor the grave can "eat" him. And only in it is the color of beauty eternal.

Sings the eternal beauty of love, suffering and renunciation andtalented Russian symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. In his poem “There is only one beauty in the world”, he writes that the gods of Hellas, and the blue sea, and waterfalls, and “heavy mountains”, no matter how beautiful, cannot be compared with the beauty of the soul of Jesus Christ, who agreed to voluntary torment for humanity.

Conclusions

So, if for centuries great minds have been talking about the same thing - about the eternity of the spirit and the frailty of the body, then why do we continue this senseless race for brilliance, splendor and picturesqueness? Israeli Kabbalist Michael Laitman claims that the soul is born again and again only to experience different states, as if trying on different clothes. And only having measured everything and realizing that the pursuit of fame, we alth, external beauty and eternal youth brings nothing but emptiness and disappointment, the soul turns its gaze to the true, looks inside itself and seeks answers to all questions only from God.

In other words, the scientist says that the cultivation of the beauty of the body is nothing but a necessary stage of development. After all, it is impossible at school from the first grade to immediately jump to the tenth and understand what trigonometry is, if you are still training to write numbers and letters beautifully in cursive. And, as the Arab philosopher D. H. Gibran said, there comes a moment when you perceive the world not as an image that you would like to see, and not as a song that you would like to hear, but as an image and a song that a person sees and hears, even if he closes his eyes and ears.