beauty
24 subentries
- beauty. See also art; truth, beauty, and goodness
- always triumphs over ugliness (156:5.5)
- ancients believed b. aroused envy of spirits (87:5.7)
- base life on highest consciousness of (110:3.7)
- concept not inherent in physics (195:6.11)
- defined as
- discernment of goodness in truth (2:7.8)
- finite maximum of experience (117:1.7)
- harmonious relations, rhythms of creation (56:10.9-11)
- man’s effort to discern God in matter (56:10.2)
- reflection of Paradise in material creation (56:10.17)
- revelation of Deity (0:1.17) (56:10.9)
- spirit of Father (155:6.11)
- unification of contrasts, of Creator and creature (56:10.3-4)
- value-realization of God-consciousness (111:3.7)
- discernment of b. is integration of reality (2:7.8)
- leads to worship, especially with children (167:6.5-6)
- man’s understanding of b. only relatively true (115:1.2)
- most religious when simple and naturelike (167:6.6)
- never satisfying if ununified (44:7.3)
- pleasing surroundings contribute to happiness (140:4.10)
- service of b. no substitute for religious experience (196:3.23)
- sincere pursuit of b. leads to God (195:6.17)
- truth, fact, and relationship inseparable from (44:7.2)
- variety essential to (56:10.3-4)
Cross-references
- See also art
- See also truth, beauty, and goodness
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- goodness 49
- truth 92
- spiritual growth 96
- truth, beauty, and goodness 9
- art 26
- love 101
- churches 9
- Deity 44