Beauty and power are the same thing: good intention expressed in form. Every act, no matter how small, holds its fullest power when it's beautiful. Learn from nature's principles to develop beauty in material, intellectual, and spiritual work.
Expression of the great truth that life power is infinite. And when the inner meaning of beauty is thus revealed to us. And we learn to know it as the very fullness and overflowing of power, we shall find that we have gained a new standard for the guidance of our own lives. We must begin today to use this wonderful process which we have learned from nature. Having learned how nature works, how God works, we must begin to work in like manner. And never consider any work complete. Until we have carried it to some final outcome of beauty, whether material, intellectual or spiritual. Is my intention good? That is the initial question. For the intention determines the nature of the essence of everything. What is the most beautiful form in which I can express the good I intend? That is the ultimate question. For the true beauty which our work expresses. Is the measure of its power, its intelligence, its love, in a word, of the quantity and quality of our own life which we have put into it. Nothing is of so small a kind that it does not have its fullest power of expression. Some form of beauty peculiarly its own beauty is the law of perfect thought. Be it the subject of our thought, some scheme affecting the welfare of millions. Or a word spoken to a little child. True beauty and true power are the correlatives of one another. Kindly expression originates in kindly thought. And kindly expression is the essence of beauty. Which, seeking to express itself ever more and more perfectly, Becomes that fine touch of sympathy which is artistic skill. Whether applied when working upon material substances. Or upon the emotions of the heart. Seeing thus that the beautiful is the true expression of the good. From whichever end of the scale we look, we shall find that they accurately measure each other. They are the same thing in the outermost and the innermost, respectively. But in our search for a higher beauty than we have yet found. We must beware of missing the beauty that already exists. Perfect harmony with its environment. And perfect expression of this own inner nature. Are what constitute beauty and are regardless of the nature of the plate or its environment. It takes the genius of a Van Gogh in painting or a woman in work. To show us the beauty of those ordinary workaday figures. With which our world is for the most part peopled, whose originals we pass by as having no form or attractiveness. Assuredly, the mission of every thinking man and woman. Is to help build up forms of greater beauty everywhere, be they spiritual or material. But to do so, we must enter the great realistic school of nature. And learn to recognize the beauty that already surrounds us, even though it may have a little dirt on the surface. Then, when we have learnt the great principles of beauty from the all pervading spirit which it reflects. We shall know how to develop the beauty on its own proper lines without perpetuating the dirt and grime. And we shall know that all beauty is the expression of living power. And that we can measure our own power by the degree to which we have transformed our lives and the lives of those around us for the better. Foot one. Yeah. No, I want a few times. It's a thing is also.
