"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
-Plato,
In other words...Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
Sometimes we want to take things a step further, to create or take what we think is something beautiful and make it more beautiful. Take a look at how this can make us feel better, and why. A heavenly chocolate icing for an already scrumptious cake, make-up over a gorgeous face, a sharper riff for an already genius pattern, one more accessory for a stunning Lamborghini or Maserati. What is it that drives up to want to take it up a notch, how does that truly improve us or our lives. Is it ego? Ask yourself. I challenge you to Gild The Lily in one aspect of your life today and see how it makes you feel, better or the same....
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