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| Edited By: Annu Matthai |Source: DNA |Updated: May 27, 2015, 05:10 AM IST
A recent survey found just 4% of women worldwide answered “yes”.
The remaining 96% think of themselves as average -- despite the time, effort and money spent on cultivating beauty!
Let’s change that.
It’s tempting to allow transient human standards of external beauty to define us. But is physical appearance an indicator of character, intelligence, a sense of humor or the capacity to love?
No! Yet it’s characteristics like these that make us loveable and worth knowing. Spiritual qualities like integrity, unselfishness, kindness, and creativity define the true and lasting beauty of both men and women. They make us good friends, good family members or life-partners, good co-workers.
Such qualities are our inherent spiritual beauty as God’s children. And we bring them out in ourselves by understanding we each are a unique child of God. So let’s make that a priority- instead of worrying about cultivating a socially acceptable image. We can “…let worth be judged according to wisdom …” writes Mary Baker Eddy.
Then we will answer the question “Are you beautiful?” with a resounding yes!
The author is a practitioner of Christian Science healing
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