"To educate in the contemplation of beauty is to open the mind to its essence."Rachel Carson's "The Sense of Awe": from beauty to ethical commitment.Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot": "Beauty will save the world".The external beauty of a woman or a man is usually obvious, especially if it is enhanced with good taste, careful make-up, appropriate clothing and chosen adornment. But inner beauty, for example, an attractive way of being, the generous and dedicated existence of some people, or the transcendence that surpasses the here and now, is not within the reach of the curious or the distracted. It requires a capacity for contemplation, which can be increased as long as one is willing to lighten the concupiscence of sight, since it blinds the veiled.
That is why we talk about keeping our sight, to see beyond, to see the hidden. This does not only mean not to look at the pornographic, the voluptuous or the provocative, with the intention of reaching other realities. But also not to freely contemplate the modestly elegant, the modestly beautiful or the humble sublime that does not correspond to you. In this way we transcend what is visible to our eyes to reach the invisible.
But it is not only necessary to take care of the sight to reach the hidden beauty, it is also necessary to lower the noise and reduce the gear. In this era of too much noise, of screens, fake newsIn which we go very fast and there is a lot of hustle and bustle, it may seem that a state of contemplation or enjoyment of beauty or art cannot be reached, but this is false.
For Ignacio Vicens, Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Polytechnic University of MadridThe palate of beauty demands slowness", we go too fast to taste beauty. We think that this cannot be controlled when most of the ghosts are in our head. We can take times of free digital fasting or political silence. polarizing. That does not depend on society, it depends on us, we can stop to collect ourselves and contemplate the beauty.
Truth, goodness and beauty are principles that sustained the West. For many today, they have become obsolete. But is it true, are they all obsolete? In reality none of them, but truth seems to be surpassed by post-truth, goodness swept away by the story, but beauty... Has beauty been surpassed? Beauty is born in the most conflictive, complicated and turbulent periods. Not in the peaceful, simple and serene periods. And now we are in a change of era and it is time for creativity and for beauty, we just have to find personal and family time to read, to think, to be in silence and to educate ourselves.
