1,215 thoughts on ““Beauty is Much More Than Skin Deep””

1. True beauty is felt rather than seen.

2. As I was growing up I can recall countless times being called the black one. And some people still identifies me as that to this day as it is so ingrained in them. Isn’t it fascinating how all of those years growing up, wasted energy was spent in thinking or believing that I was ugly, because of a word that was laced with something beyond comprehension by the physical body.

   Adele you could not be more correct here, “true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically”. It can actually be felt if we allow ourselves to do so and not allow those laced words penetrate our being and our body’s. Our lives will be much different if we did.

3. Some lovely questions for us to continually consider, am I
   ‘Taking care of myself tenderly?
   Nurturing my body in true health?
   Committed to expressing equality with others no matter what?
   Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?
   Holding myself always in appreciation and understanding?
   Allowing myself and life to unfold in the deepest acceptance?
   Constantly going deeper with all of this?’

4. Do we let our inner beauty be seen, ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us.’

5. Thank you for the reminders on taking care of the beauty within, and how the body reflects how we are with the expression of our true being, and how preciously we hold ourselves or not.

   1. Self-care is totally within and from there, beauty within can certainly come through. It matters not what others think or believe, the absoluteness and God can come through then.

6. It is so common for us to focus on our flaws and see only these and yet what if we turned the focus to the beauty that shines out from our eyes, the window to our Soul?

7. If we do not allow ourselves to feel and see the beauty on the inside then we will feel that we are lacking in beauty. True beauty is deep inside but we may choose to not see it. The process of transforming into a beauty has so much more to do with how we feel rather than what we look like and this takes a huge pressure off us when we surrender to this.

8. This is such a healing: “true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.”

9. Appreciation is “to truly live our beauty in essence,” and this energetic appreciate-ive-ness, is when we grasp this science, then we are deepening our relationship with evolution.

   1. We are all beautiful in essence, ‘To me, every single person in this world is beautiful. We are all equally beautiful in our essence’.

10. We all know true & real beauty – what is the game that we play when we fall for the societal demands?

11. Attention and recognition, momentary satisfaction & a longing for more.

12. Beauty is felt by the heart, not seen with the eyes.

    1. True, but having said that when someone is connected to their essence there is an absolutely divine glow in the facial expression and in the body movements that cannot be dismissed. It is this quality that is stunning and anyone who expresses it is a traffic stopper!

       1. Or traffic-maker 😉 yes, very true – but this glow may not fit the stereotype of beauty we have created today.

    2. Oh Viktoria – this is so beautiful: Beauty is felt by the heart and not seen with the eyes. What pearls 😉

13. True beauty is immediately recognised in anyone who moves and expresses in full all that they innately are.

14. Mmm, I like the idea of incorporating, self care, self love and responsibility into my daily beauty routine.

    1. The true way to reveal our beauty.

15. It’s quite odd that I realised early on, being me and shinning bright brought to me a whole heap of jealousy from caretakers that I didn’t know how to handle. Whilst I decided to dull my inner beauty down I strove to be beautiful as decided by others – a painful process full of comparison, disappointment and insecurity. Reading the beauty magazines I soon realised the message was ‘you’ll not be beautiful until you use this cream, or this product etc.’ The beauty is we can always return to our inner beauty and let it shine.

    1. It is inspiring to read beauty magazines and realise it’s all a bunch of lies and eventually discover what true beauty is is not just taking care of our physicality. Nurturing our being begins this process.

    2. We can judge ourselves, and be quite harsh in our judgements, ‘I judged myself harshly on my appearance. I would obsess on the flaws that no one else could see but myself, and use this as an excuse to hide.’

16. Scientists have decided that beauty is the perfect symmetry of the face. But, the combination of our particles with another that created us, rolls the dice to ensure we are unique. So, beauty must be something more profound for we all have it equally, but we choose to make ourselves, on the outside the same and hide what lies within.

    1. I would not trust any comment that does not show me the equality I know within my heart and body.

    2. We have a responsibility to live in our essence, in our natural true inner beauty, and to share this with the world, ‘I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me.’

17. As we grow up into a teenager those negative thoughts of how we look can shape us into people so far removed from who we were at birth and robs us (by our own choices) of the potential we are all born with. Then we live as a lesser being always in the disappointment of life instead of the joy.

    1. I remember being a teenager and how depressed it is to be alive but it grows out from the love I always have irrefutable within me.

       1. Depression comes when we cut out our loving source of energy, when we deplete ourselves by trying to prove our worth, by pandering to those around us by compromising ourselves in every shape and form in order to please others. The only antidote to depression so self-love, nurturing & caring, nothing else will cure it from the core.

18. ‘true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.’ Absolutely Adele, we need more true role models in the world that reflect to other women how we can live and move in the world connected to our own divine and unique qualities without needing to fit into a picture or image that society thinks is ‘normal’.

    1. I agree, we are lacking in true role models of beauty. Recently a very beautiful actress in my country appeared really inappropriate after a long absence from the screen, there is so much pressure to remain young and thin as being the standards of beauty alone, which was not beautiful at all. Beauty does not first come from outside and it comes from our acceptance of our multidimensionality.

19. “… true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” We can pour a great deal of time and money into our external looks, but nothing can compare with the radiance that shines out of us when we truly cherish and nurture our inner beauty. Embodying our heavenly qualities is the best cosmetic surgery we can ever invest in.

    1. That is the true foundation we build for beauty. The inner and outer harmony of ourselves.

20. ‘It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.’ A forever surrender to our wisdom within and with that it becomes a letting go of the control we ‘think’ we have.

    1. This just brings a deep settlement. There is no where to go but just keep living who we are.

21. I like how you add the element of choice into beauty – could everyone be beautiful, but only few choose to actually express that beauty and let it out.

    1. Letting beauty out we need to first feel our own beauty through the care we give back to ourselves.

    2. Is it possible that one day everyone will accept and cherish their innate beauty, ‘True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.’

22. “But what is beauty?” Beauty is what we feel when we connect from our essence to the essence of another.

    1. Beauty is always there, in essence everyone is beautiful.

23. Definitely I can say beauty is only skin deep, it is what you are on the inside that counts and this is actually what people feel. We can feel if people are angry or sad for example and if you live in a way that shows everyone how deeply you love yourself they are naturally attracted to you because they know that they have the same love in their bodies they are just not choosing it.

    1. That being the reason even just a reflection of a body lived in care can offer the other the same they can do for themselves.

24. I agree Adele “Beauty is Much More Than Skin Deep” it comes from our essence and the more we live from our essence the more beautiful it is.

    1. The appreciation of ourselves is deeply precious and valuable.

25. We have definitely lost touch with what beauty actually is, thanks to all the judgments in society. I remember as a really little girl I felt beautiful and this had nothing to do with how I looked or what shape my body was. It was just a feeling. As an adult it is only through letting myself feel again (instead of thinking my way through everything) that I have come to feel beautiful. I am older and perhaps less attractive now but that doesn’t change the way I feel and that is worth more than any attention I could receive from outside myself.

    1. It is true that age has nothing to do with being beautiful or not. Whether we feel beautiful or not is how we care about our body and being and this care is felt inside and out.

26. Beauty comes from within, it is not an image or a picture and the more we realise that beauty is not physical we start to understand the true depth of beauty there is in all of us.

    1. I agree, many times I don’t want to feel beautiful, when I look at a picture taken during this time, I can actually feel how beautiful I am.

27. Learning to re-educate the eyes to see the quality of beauty rather than the physical presence of beauty has been a revelation to me. It let’s me see the glory within someone and their body shape or size is irrelevant.

    1. That is the true sensor of beauty equally in everyone of us and it is called love.

28. It’s interesting to look at the norms and standards that we have created in this society which says what’s beautiful and what’s not. It’s a creation that labels people and box them depending on the outter appearance. Many young girls and women around the globe are suffering by not feeling enough today whereas such standards are not even real. How ridiculous is that.

    What is here expressed brings light in the middle of a system based on trends that dictates how to dress, how to look like…but forgot how sensitive, deeply tender and equally beautiful from inside we really are. It is a blessing reading an experience like this, it invites me to appreciate my inner-beauty as much as my unique expression as a woman. A choice that makes me feel great but equal to all at the same time.

    1. Judgements abound when we are not loving to ourselves. How do we withstand a society, culture and industry that feeds on self-loathing? We just have to be solid in our self-love and self-care.

29. Adele your sharing unify all of us in one Truth, the fact that we are born sacred and full of beauty. Thank you

30. Taking care of and nurturing ourselves… without having an agenda about what this will look like I am so up for putting this into practice… it feels like going on a investigative exploration with myself and life.

    1. The letting go of a picture is truly inspiring. In fact, it allows us even more learning along the way. Because when we work according to a picture or destination, it is always limiting and life in its truth is spherical rather than linear.

    2. Deep care for self and nurturing of self emanates out to all to inspire them like wise. This in itself is beautiful not just of the one living this way but in how it supports all others too.

31. Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, In truth, beauty is in the body of both the beholder and of the beheld. True beauty is invisible to the eyes.

    1. True beauty is always offered to the eyes as well, but our whole body receives it.

32. Can beauty be recognised without an image? I think it can. We register beauty when we recognise Heaven in what we see/hear, we know the quality, even just for a fleeting moment.

    1. Images is only one way to “see”, but we see so much more not just with eyes, but by receiving and feeling everything with the body.

33. The overuse of the word “beautiful” has made it cheap in the everyday language. We look at a woman who is wearing the “right clothes” to fit the picture of what society deems beautiful and call her “beautiful”. Despite the fact that she may be living in complete self-abuse, her eyes may be communicating the deepest levels of sadness and her heart may be covered in layers of protection. We have lost the true meaning of the word “beauty” – the connection to the inner heart and the shine that comes through our eyes. The beautiful spark that is in each and every one of us. When I first came across the students of The Way of The Livingness I could feel that on several occasions when the word was said, there was a different feeling to the emptiness that I was so used to. When the word is communicated with an integrity of a life lived in connection to love, there isn’t an emptiness and a trying to fit the picture. This is what gives us confirmation of the beauty that we hold inside and permission to let it out when everything else in the world says no.

    1. I felt the same when I met Serge Benhayon the first time, beauty is not seen but received fully by my entire body and everything is known that moment, there is no doubt and that is absolute beauty.

34. You can hear that beauty is not skin deep all your life but until you actually feel beautiful on the inside, it just seems like words. I have found this inner beauty all comes back to how I am with myself, how accepting and loving I am. This leaves me with a warm glow that no outer beauty can match.

    1. The simplicity of the fact that the quality we feel and our relationship with life is founded on ‘how accepting and loving I am’ is disarming and inspiring.

    2. We all know there is an inner part of ourselves but we also want to ignore or pretend we don’t know this and focus all on the external because what we actually feel within is not what we want to feel.

    3. Beauty needs to have a strong foundation and that can only come from inside of us.

35. For me beauty is in the eyes – the spark of joy, the light of the soul shining through. I have seen this light come on in other people as they realise there is the ‘more’ to life and rediscover the depth we are missing. This shows me that the beauty is in us all, sometimes it’s just not turned on.

    1. Eyes are important but so is every single part of ourselves, even our earlobes, they are all equal in sharing heaven.

    2. I agree, beauty is not in symmetry or perfection or physique but in an untouchable magic – and you can most definitely see it in people’s eyes.

       1. So true and that is why no many people have symmetrical faces but there is beauty in us all when felt from our essence. Physical beauty segregates, but inner beauty unites.

36. We know for ourselves that how we live, eat, sleep and look after our body can actually transform our physical appearance, because the feelings we have on the inside have a huge effect on the outside, and thus glowing exteriorly comes from glowing interiorly 🙂

    1. Not everyone knows this, in fact, most people have not made this connection. But this choice when made in consistency changes everything.

37. “If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes?” – Lately I have been using the appearance of my eyes as the ‘barometer’ for how my whole body is doing, with amazing accuracy. It’s like looking into the deepest depths of myself and seeing just whats going on inside that actually manifests directly with the appearance of my eyes and correlates to how my whole body feels.

    1. In the Asian culture the bastardization of the eyes being the window of the soul is to wear larger and deeper color contact lens.

38. Could the appreciation of our true beauty also require us to embrace our imperfections?

    1. Definitely Suse, embracing our imperfections may open us up to learn and thus to who we really are.

39. It is truly beautiful when I see a women connected to her Sacredness and then expressing this quality in all her movements.

40. “Living the unending inspiration from God as inspired by the unending Livingness from Serge Benhayon.” This is true beauty and is what lives within us all. Serge Benhayon is the living reflection of this lived.

41. I can feel your beauty in the words expressed here Adele. It becomes obvious that beauty is an energy well before it is seen and much of what we call physical beauty is not physical at all.

    1. And the energy is absolute beholding.

42. I would define beauty as a movement of holding a connection to a deep knowing.

43. I used to pick my face a lot and one day I realised it was because I constantly picked on myself and every thing about me I didn’t feel was up to scratch, or had been told was not pleasing to others. So of course all I saw was ugliness because I was holding an ugliness inside by believing what I was told by others and what I saw on TV and the media of what beauty was. This has changed tenfold, there are still times where I only see faults but they are definitely less and less, and that is from experimenting with how I feel is, then how I look at myself.

    1. How you look is so much determined by how you feel, so true Aimee.

       1. Absolutely, which is evident in the incredible before and after photos of students of the way of the livingness http://www.universalmedicine.net/before–after.html. You can never put on a bigger enough smile or makeup or clothes that will prevent you from seeing how you are living and how you see and feel about yourself.

       2. “You can never put on a bigger enough smile or makeup or clothes that will prevent you from seeing how you are living and how you see and feel about yourself.” Yes, and we can all feel that as it is just an outer layer we apply but does not come form the fullness of the body.

    2. You are not alone in this, most of the world lives this way and we at each other thinking it’s normal. But it just feels super uninspiring to live with each other in this way.

    3. Love, the beholding quality we have with ourselves is the door to the immense beauty that we are, lived.

    4. The force of self-loathing can be huge but it is never as powerful as that of love.

       1. When we realise that we are powerful beyond measure because we are naturally love, the force of self-loathing could not touch us.

44. I understand what you are saying about true beauty Adele as I too have observed that inner glow from people that just emanates and makes you feel as an observer both settled and appreciative at the same time.

    1. Most of my life I have reacted against the lack of beauty around me, in my city and family and I wasn’t accepting that this is the state I have chosen to be in. But there is nothing to be alarmed about, this is the truth of the world, and if there is only a source of beauty, this can still be shared, to warm up the whole place.

45. I agree – when I honour my feelings of the love I feel first and foremost my beauty shines from within confirming it with no need to seek it.

46. Who we are at essence is beautiful beyond words so the question is how much of that do we allow to shine out and be felt and seen by ourselves and others.

    1. Absolutely this comes as an acceptance and an unreserved expression of who we are in truth.

47. The beauty industry wants us to buy into this idea of less – and that we need products to make us feel complete – but this is not the truth of who we are and it does not celebrate the natural beauty we all hold. What an opportunity to reimprint this and feel the depths of our beauty once more.

48. “Everything we see on the surface reflects the responsibility we have taken, in expressing the true quality that is within us all equally.” If we feel beautiful in ourselves then this is what he world will see

49. Thank you Adele for a beautiful sharing on true beauty, in all the choices I make I have the responsibility to live the true beauty that lives within me, by appreciation of who I am and what I bring and commitment to deeply care and self nurture my being.

50. “true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” So true and beautifully said.

51. The body can have certain features or proportions that dependent on zeitgeist or taste may be considered as looking beautiful, but it is not the body as such or on its own that emanates true beauty, it is the expression of the inner that then shines from and beyond the physical form; then the body becomes the vehicle of that beauty in expression and thus the physical is transcended by the non-physical aka divinity.

52. When being and feeling beautiful becomes looking beautiful as one´s inner expressed by the outer, appearance no longer is superficial and void of the inner but filled from within – the esoteric and the exoteric become one and the same.

53. Recently I did a swap with a friend for an esoteric healing session. She is a slightly older woman and when she got on the table I was wowed by her body. There was nothing physical about what wowed me, it was the quality of her and her energy. You could then see signs of this in the physical but it came from energy first. Her body was so soft, delicate and surrendered and it was an incredible beauty.

54. Acceptance of who we truly are is indeed a beauty to behold.

    1. This beauty is much deeper than anything we judge beauty to be. It is an allowance to express everything we have ever held back as.

55. It is true that we are not equally beauty outer-ly and that we are equally beautiful in our essence. When we start connecting to our essence we not only start changing outer-ly but also look at the outer beauty with other eyes, much more discerning ones.

    1. When the deep beauty in our essence when felt and lived consistently there is a change in our outer appearance, beyond that of what attracts the eye.

56. Gorgeous Adele – as a woman – I have certainly indulged in the body being all about self and image. But in this, I miss the essence and quality of who I truly am. I am very much enjoying playing with how deeply caring for myself then impacts what I present to the world, and how this is such a solid foundation compared to the magazines and supposed role models I looked too before.

    1. The body is very precious so caring for it deeply brings out our preciousness which is so beautiful naturally. No imposed beauty can ever compare to this quality. Thank you for living the truth of what beauty is.

57. True Adele nothing on the outside is as fixed as we think, one day I feel beautiful and look in my eyes with awe and the next day is can be the other way around I even don’t feel like looking in the mirror. I must say that is not there anymore in such extremes but still one day I feel more beautiful than another day and it still is me, with a bright shining light within and I am the one who decides to come out in full or not.

    1. Inspiring Annelies that how beautiful or powerful or amazing is our full choice. Do we truly appreciate all that we are and bring?

58. Each and every one of us is immeasurable beautiful in essence. All that is required is for us to connect to the essence that lies within and begin to identify ourselves as this beauty.

59. When we Fully-Appreciate, then the Love that comes through our Inner-Most re-connects us to and holds us in this True beauty of our lived expression.

60. Great questions Adele which would support anyone to go deeper with their connection with themselves and thus the beauty that they emanate to all.

61. It is so freeing to feel that even guys can naturally be pretty and beautiful and that it is ok to be so! A beautiful is NOT necessarily one who is gay but in fact one who is living more from his true essence. The consequences of the bastardisation of this word has lead to the justification of so much separation in this world.

    1. I always appreciate men as beautiful. Deeply so. In essence we all are.

62. Beauty is the way in which we move, confirm and appreciate who we are in essence. It is a full body movement that deepens as we appreciate of who we are within and let go of the what is not.

63. How we move and are with ourselves throughout our day does make a big difference in the quality of energy we allow to run our bodies.

64. How glorious it is to read this question you ask of yourself Adele.
    “I ask myself, am I: Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed”.
    Serge Benhayon and his family are deeply inspiring in the reflection they offer of this absolute majesty of movement that is possible for everyone.

65. The fact that our body grows old and loses its so-called beauty in terms of developing wrinkles etc. shows that it makes no sense to invest in physical characteristics as a measure of our beauty. For clearly this type of beauty is temporary and superficial, yet the deep beauty within is eternal and forever shining.

    1. Beautifully said Thomas, for when we do invest in our physical appearance being a certain way, this is what keeps the ‘beauty industries’, and all kinds of cosmetic surgery thriving, as we all inevitably age and with that comes changes. Have you ever heard of a eight year old being upset and distraught because they looked so different to when they were a 3 year old?! It just doesn’t happen.

66. We are all beautiful. Whether we see and feel it for ourselves is entirely our choice.

67. Beauty is much more than skin deep, ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us.’

68. ‘But in growing up, even though I have what the world judges as physical beauty, I did not feel beautiful at all, as for many years I did not live the beauty that I know to be true of myself.’ This is true for so many, we only need to look at the model industry and see how models who are deemed beautiful feel about themselves to know that it is not our outer looks which determine how we feel. Beauty comes from appreciation and acceptance of ourselves for all our idiosyncrasies and quirks, it is about loving ourselves and living this love without trying to fit into an image that the world is telling us to be.

69. So beautifully expressed Adele. I notice that certain foods and drinks affect my appearance and in the past I often reacted and judged myself to be ugly in some way. Your blog reminds me that my beauty is always present and it is my responsibility to allow it to be seen.

70. Thank you Adele : I fully agree, our beauty is not what we think it is – it is never measured , but gained in connecting to who we are.

71. I’m glad I stumbled on this blog tonight.. What an insightful point you make Adele, that in criticising something about ourselves, we actually hide. And from there it’s easy to perpetuate the critique, which becomes self-loathing and we hide more and more the true beauty that we are – a beauty that when allowed to be expressed reflects to us the wonder of God.

72. When I am tired I can begin to let go of caring for myself, I can lose my focus and start bumping into things.
    When this happens it is definitely time to take stock and to appreciate the beauty that is there on the inside, I tend to slow down and allow myself a deeper connection to my body.

73. It is very inspiring to hear someone claim their beauty like this, – ‘No alterations of body parts necessary, no special beauty or skin care treatments needed, but with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital.’

74. ” …. true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” Right on Adele. We have been sold a lie and the beauty industry’ along with the media’ fan the flames to exploit the feelings of vulnerability in women – and men – so that there is a forever searching for the next elixir of life-enhancing therapy or product. True beauty comes from the inside when we love and appreciate ourselves for who we truly are and this emanates outwards.

75. We have allowed the cosmetic industry to tell us we are not beautiful enough as we are that we need to enhance or conceal. They supply what we demand so the lack of appreciation of who we truly are has to come from us first.

    1. So true Mary – if we fully appreciated and celebrated our inner beauty there would be zero demand for a zillion dollar beauty industry.

76. “When I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens” – the bestest ever beauty tips!

    1. I agree Fumiyo. No amount of makeup or cosmetics will bring what Adele is talking about here, and this comes from the responsibility of knowing and acting on the fact that every action, word and thought affects her body.

77. A how to guide to true beauty that would put the ugly ‘beauty industry’ out of business if it was accepted and understood by all.

78. Thank you Adele that is so true. Worth reading, and re-turning to the fact that : beauty is way much more than skin deep.

79. “Allowing myself and life to unfold in the deepest acceptance”.This line resonates with me as I am working on the quality of acceptance, accepting where I am, accepting where I am going,(my future by the loving choices I make now), accepting all that I have to bring, and accepting my beauty.

80. It is our choice to acknowledge, celebrate and share our innate beauty, we choose the quality that we are. It can be felt if someone is down on themselves and whilst the onlooker can see so clearly the beauty it still comes back to us claiming the magic that is there.

81. ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.’ True beauty is not exclusive – everyone is born beautiful.

82. “Our inner hearts carry the soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” I love this expression. We have a choice in every moment of our day: to be love – or not, to harm or to heal.

83. It’s amazing how no matter what we come to, there’s a part of us that can take what is presented and use it as a reason to prove we are not enough. ‘Oh you still lack this, don’t you see your defincacy?’. My experience like yours Adele is these thoughts and patterns relentlessly come in unless we connect and deeply feel the delicious warmth we have within. If we move, speak and live with this gorgeousness and joy there is no way we could doubt our own beauty.

84. Coming to understand that “every action, word and thought affects my body” has been life changing for me as I now realise the responsibility that I have as to how I treat my body; for every choice, there is a consequence. To know that it is my choice that determines whether the light shines from my eyes or whether I walk around with a frown on my forehead has brought a feeling of liberation from the belief that it is how I look on the outside that determines my beauty.

85. By connecting with this subject I can feel now how complicated it is to try to externally improve, repair or sustain the physical beauty, because in fact, to be beautiful doesn’t have to do with anything of that. We all are already beautiful just for being who we are. It’s just by connecting with this fact, that our beauty emerges to the surface without any effort.

86. Our essence is more beautiful than anything we will ever see with our eyes.

    1. What we see with our eyes we can tend to be very quick to judge. But if we close our eyes and open our hearts we get to feel true beauty that is all around us.

87. “True beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically..” True beauty is a concession of movements that expresses our innate essence as divine souls on this planet and that is a pretty powerful love bomb to bestow.

88. Some great observations of how your skin changes Adele with regards to how you express – it is true that our thoughts are shown on our face and within the body. So it makes sense that if we are down on ourselves then our body will reflect that and show the signs of the bludgeoning over time. And vice versa, if we are appreciative and are deeply caring of ourselves then that would result in having a body that reflects that.

89. True Beauty really is simply a reflection of the light that is within us all, and that is reflected back out so that everyone has the opportunity to feel their own light and their own grace and beauty.

90. I agree Adele with your sharing that ‘beauty is much deeper than skin deep.’ When we are connected to ourselves we express a more true version of ourselves which allows for our inner beauty and divine qualities to shine for all to see.

91. We put pressure on ourselves by striving for perfection and in doing so we are not accepting where we are nor our inner-most value that is forever present. Looking outside of ourselves is never a good idea for this takes us further from the truth of who we are for an image that we can never live up to – how can we when we are striving to be other than who we are?

92. I have noticed when I look in the mirror or see photographs of myself that I can look very different depending on how I am feeling on the inside. Sometimes I look absolutely radiant relaxed and full and sometimes I look withdrawn tense and anxious. It is the same face, eyes, skin etc but the appearance can be very obviously different depending on how much connection I am feeling with myself.

93. I totally agree that we are all innately beautiful and that expressing this is more a process of uncovering or unveiling the light of our essence in all our ways of life rather than shaping ourselves to meet a certain picture.

94. “If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes? Are they puffy and have dark circles or reflecting the clarity that I know? Is my face reflecting my natural joy, and is my skin reflecting vitality?” Every choice we make has an impact not only on how we feel, but also on how we look. It is this that is reflected in our eyes and on our skin, and when someone lives a life that is vital and full this is the true beauty that shines through.

95. I look around and there are so many different looking people – but we seem to take one small category and class it as ‘pretty or sexy or good looking’ rather than including the all. We take people at face value when as you share here Adele there is so much more under the skin. What an opportunity for all of us to see the beauty within ourselves and others.

96. True beauty is a radiance from within that touches all in the absolute celebration and joy of Love lived and shared with others.

97. It is a common known phrase, ‘beauty is more than skin deep’, but how much do we in society really really champion that and live it. How much do we actually live and develop that in our young boys and girls. With the proliferation of how social media is used, especially with teenagers, it is quite hideous how social media has if anything just made skin deep beauty more and more the focus. The focus of how we look counts, not what quality we feel or live.

98. When we feel beautiful the thoughts we receive are naturally very confirming and appreciative of who we are and the choices we are making. When we don’t feel beautiful the thoughts we receive are of a completely different nature and can feed all sorts of lies and distorted perceptions about who we are.

99. The fact that you can look in the mirror one day and be enamoured with yourself, and the next find fault with every little detail, even though you yourself have not changed, is proof itself that our perception of beauty constantly alters based not on how we truly look, but on our how we feel about ourselves.

    1. Thus, by way of adding to the above, why beauty is not a visual thing, but something based on feeling, and not looks at all.

       1. What I understand from reading your comments above Adam is that true beauty is energetic, not solely visual, as in we can feel true beauty through emanation and its quality.

100. Inspiring to read Adele. Lately I have been more aware of the fact that people look the way they look for a reason, it is not random, and that there is a responsibility and a purpose behind this. For instance maybe someone was given a great smile, they may not have a beauty that would make the ideal of what beauty is, but maybe their smile is a gift to humanity, and that smile has the potential to help the receiver let down their guard enough to feel their own heart opening, and in that moment feel their own divinity.

     1. That is beautiful. Why smiles are so beautiful is truly a letting go of protection for us to feel the intimacy that is natural with ourselves and with all.

101. The beauty that is within us all does not come from our outer beauty but a willingness to connect openly to one another to feel that beauty is shared by all.

     1. Beauty is not a destination. It cannot be achieved with going to the beauty salon in Truth. Beauty deepens and is expressed Fuller when we live fuller of who we are in life, and we move with a fullness, commitment and understanding with ourselves and others.

102. This is such a beautiful reminder Adele to really let go of the flaws that I look in the mirror and see, then criticise myself for, not being toned enough, not feeling like I’ve exercised enough, not eaten the right things, gone to bed early enough, all these things are very critical and not seeing me for all the beauty that I am not matter whether I have done or feel those things about myself or not.

     1. I certainly do that too but recently I did an experiment with myself and allowed myself to truly look in the mirror in public (I was at the gym) when I exercised. I looked and for a moment I wanted to look away, as those thoughts started to arise–those dark circles, the dry skin etc…but I stayed with it and continued my glance in the mirror. I was committed to looking/feeling beyond what I see, and suddenly I felt so much joy–that was the truth within me, the truth that I can live and allow to emanate in my physical being–and why have I not constantly? And from then on, my own feeling of myself changed. This lasted days and then my question was, can’t it then be my every day? (YES!)

     2. For me those “flaws” are more of how critical I am of myself than what I did or not do. This is very true and shows the detriment of self-loathing. But then it inspires me of what self-love and nurture can bring.

103. Thank you Adele, sharing with us the importance of feeling instead of seeing. We have made beauty about seeing, yet it is all about feeling: feeling the vibration of energy through someone. If that flow of energy is divine – fiery light of God, we will see and feel at the same time what true Beauty is.

     1. We feel before we see/receive, what we receive is what we know irrefutably inside of us.

104. Its incredible that we can be born absolutely beautiful and then over time we start to believe we are not. It just goes to show how when we let what is around us influence us then this becomes how we feel.

     1. So true Natalie. If we didnt allow this to happen, self doubt would simply become a distant memory and we hold ourselves in the knowing that we are all beautiful, regardless of how we look.

     2. And remembering this truth is a process of deepening joy.

105. For many years I staunchly and vigorously denied my beauty. It didn;t matter how often others told me I was – I didn’t feel it. But now, after having healed so many hurts, let go of the lack of self-worth I was living with, transformed much of the self-loathing I felt constantly, into self-appreciation, I know in my heart and with every cell of my being that I am beautiful. It isn’t and never has been about the way I look (although I used to believe that lie too), my beauty shines through from the connection to myself, untainted by many of the deals and beliefs I saw myself through, that simply allows my essence to be seen by all – including me.

     1. Beauty the Livingness of it is accumulated like all other aspects of life, we become familiar with it and it becomes natural.

106. Within us all resides a quality, an essence, an absoluteness of who we are. We are born living in connection to this yet we are met by and grow up in a world that does not nurture, honor or value the worth of this precious beauty. Instead we are soon taught to seek our worth though the world of images outside of ourselves, negating the timeless inner-beauty that is already within, as such we are left with a sense of lack of self-worth and a need to full-fill this emptiness. As you have shared so beautifully Adele, our bodies carry and reflect the choices we make, every single one, and when we begin to re-connect to and nurture the preciousness of who we are within, we shine with a quality that is beautiful beyond measure and is far more real than any picture or image we seek to follow.

     1. So well said. The beauty we each carry within is far more than anything from the outside could ever bring us. You may have picture perfect looks but if you do not have the warmth and love within you will never feel beautiful enough. And when you do feel amd live the love from within wow the world gets to see what sexy truly is!

     2. Our bodies carry all our choices and not just from this one life. So we always have more opportunities to let our beauty out.

107. The subject or defining of beauty and how we have and still do play with the true meaning of it. When I say play there is much more to it than that as this style of play is at the cost of all of us. We have many versions of beauty and at the moment there are massive industries built on a version that’s not true but we have all fallen for. Whether you are involved in the industry or not we are all a part of it in some way. We have allowed the meaning to walk away from it’s true origin and with each step away we have just kept on walking. Now beauty is unrecognisable face in a crowd of faces and it’s up to all of us to return to our essence and the essence of beauty. This article is a step back into beauty but there is further to go, we need to live the beauty we are naturally more deeply and deeply. As we do this we will continue to see the many versions peel back to at some point reveal the one.

     1. Of course there is more to go as there is never a destination in love but I would always appreciate every step of the way and not be hard on where we should be. This is the beholding beauty we sometimes forget and with it we naturally know where we are to be.

108. There are so many images around us about beauty and the most if not all are based on the outside and yet it comes down to the choice to shine for all to see and feel the beauty that lives within. So do I choose to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed? Something to be constantly aware of and appreciate. And to come back to when I have chosen to lower down my expression.

109. We hold the miracle cream to beauty within us all some just haven’t managed to open the lid.

     1. I love what you share Kim… so true we all have our own miracle cream within us all.

     2. Applying this cream consistently it looks fabulous and others start to want to know what is it we’re choosing? That’s the way we live.

110. Deep down we all know what true beauty is. Seeing each person in their beauty is most beautiful and it shatters any image that we have made beauty to be.

111. Great expression Adele on the responsibility of expressing our inner beauty. The more I feel and learn who I truly am on a deeper level, the easier it becomes to express this on the outside. What I’m wearing and how I’m moving and expressing then becomes an extension of what I’m already feeling – and not a solution to it.

112. The phrase ‘beauty is not only skin deep’ is commonly banded about, yet very rarely has the truth of this been explained so fully and beautifully as your blog has shared Adele. Thank you.

113. We have been sold a lie of what true beauty is and it is only through the appreciation of our qualities and values that once again we can connect to the beauty within us which is an emanation of the vibration we choose in.

114. There are so many adverts that propose get pretty quick products (usually costing large sums of cash) – open any magazine and you will find them. Open this blog and you will find the true (and free) way to unlock the beauty that is you.

115. Adele it was great to read your blog again as a reminder that the true beauty is within us all the time. It is not just the external beauty, but the beauty that emanates out from within when we take time to nurture, honour and be tender with ourselves.

116. It is always beautiful to be confirmed by the outside of what we know and are living already. To not rely or depend on this external confirmation is important. When we slack off in our own Livingness and rely on what others give us, when this is no longer the case and we feel less, then our need for external confirmation is exposed, which is a great reminder for us to deepen self-love. This is a most beautiful process, as love never has a destination, it is forever pulling us to deepen and expand.

117. It is difficult to accept that we are beautiful when we rely so much on the external world for confirmation of our own self worth.

118. I absolutely adore myself when I look in the mirror feeling super cute and sassy and yet I’ve lived life trying my hardest to fit in and be liked. And the crazy thing is that fitting in and being liked comes with trying my hardest to resist and hold back how amazing I do feel and how at ease I do feel when in celebration of these feelings that come from within me. For so long I believed it was because the world would react, get jealous and hurt me, and yes that can happen but what I’ve discovered is it’s not who I truly am to be uncomfortable with my beauty and that I have a choice to play this out or not and this is awesome to be able to feel and type.

119. Thank you for the questions you pose, it is so crucial to treat ourselves lovingly in appreciation and understanding of who we are.

120. Gorgeous Adele – thank you for sharing your experience and how you have come to know that true beauty emanates from the way you choose to live.

121. I love what you shared about it being our responsibility to live the beauty we are, not limited by the definition of what the world says physical beauty is, and embrace what is within and the true expression of that In all we do.

122. Powerfully expressed Adele. I remember watching a sitcom where the characters debated whether or not a woman was beautiful or ‘just pretty’. It felt really awful because it went against the truth that each and every one of us is beautiful and it showed how we ‘rank’ each other and place utmost importance on the surface appearance of things. There is nothing more beautiful than that moment when someone allows their inner beauty to shine out.

123. No amount of plastic surgery or makeup can alter what we have within.

124. That is very true, we are being told from a very young age that beauty is something we have to get or need to arise to, or even a goal to become or sustain.. It is interesting that beauty almost always has been brought to us as something idealistic, nice, at times unachievable and actually placed on us in a way that is absolutely dragging! Dragging us down the grave to basically give up all to be beautiful: based on all the stories, ideals, pictures, images, beliefs that we have picked up.. Horrific it is. Hence we need to get out of this bubble of what the illusionary thought of it is – so we expose it and come back to what true beauty is. Which is none of the above. Interesting..

125. It’s ironic that the most beautiful part of us cannot be seen with the eye, but is instead felt from the inner heart.

126. A stereotypically ‘good looking’ person can actually come across very ugly if they are choosing to live life and run their body from an energy that is harmful. Beauty, I am now understanding, is as you say Adele, about quality and how we live. It’s the way we move and how we are with ourselves.

127. We are all innately beautiful; we just have our own unique expression of that beauty.

128. When we judge and are harsh with ourselves and others our true beauty gets totally annihilated.

129. Absolutely beauty does come from within and is far deeper than what we see on the skin/surface. Media and magazines and some ‘celebrities’ have been a big part in reducing this and making it all and only about the physical appearance instead. I completely agree with what you have shared in that when we don’t hold back and express all of who we truly are this emanates from within allowing ourselves to shine. So really beauty has nothing to do with skin creams, make-up or the clothes we wear but how we live and what we express.

130. It is through our willingness to heal and let go that which does not belong in our bodies that once again we can feel, appreciate and celebrate the true beauty of who we are.

131. The light of stillness communicates the truth of beauty through our body with every movement.

132. I am learning to connect deeply to the beauty and wisdom within thus allowing me to feel the same for others. What you have expressed here Adele is simple and inspiring;
     “True beauty is our connection with our own quality and stillness within and the expression of it through our movements.”

133. For me true beauty doesn’t stay static but is a continuous quality that can grow. Today it’s a willingness to be gentle with myself in the moments when I realise how much more beauty I have within that I have hidden away. It’s an expression of that inner essence that looks past my choices and loves me anyway.

134. We are all equally gloriously beautiful at essence. The more we connect to and live from our true essence the more of our true beauty we emanate.

135. True beauty is the light that shines out from the inner-heart.

136. “Beauty is Much More Than Skin Deep”, this saying is such a truism and a gorgeous reminder that true beauty is reflected in a persons sparkle, what they reflect through their eyes, movement, presence, love and what they radiate from the inside.

137. So well expressed Adele, and to me I can feel that the true beauty can also come in the way we express and talk to people! As you have so lovingly shared; ‘I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.’

138. We are sold many ideas and images of what beauty is supposed to be and how we are supposed to look. But pointing the finger and shirking responsibility are not an option, really – after all, for something to thrive and dominate it takes willing followers who bow their head in obedience and comply and aspire to the same ideals and tenets at the expense of what is true and valid.

139. As I looked at myself in the mirror, trying to choose a new lipstick, I asked myself, ‘why are you choosing to hide’? All the colours I was picking out were beige and consequently hiding my lips rather than highlighting them. In that moment I decided to shine, to celebrate how gorgeous I am. I chose an extremely vibrant colour, fleetingly questioning if I was actually going to wear it in public and then proceeded to put it on in the shop and walked out feeling a million dollars. I have gone from usually only wearing lip balm to celebrating my love filled lips and it feels truly amazing. We are all beauty-full and it’s our responsibility to appreciate our own unique gorgeous-ness and not dismiss or take for granted all that we are.

140. When we connect with and celebrate our own beauty, it is felt, and seen, by everyone else. We radiate from the inside out.

141. Beauty has a feel not a look, thanks Adele

142. What true beauty is is the emanation of the movement according to the natural harmony and order of the Universe.

143. Everyone is beautiful, the more someone truly cares for themselves and express’s who they are, the more this shines out. Beauty is not about symmetry and people having the ‘right’ physical attributes, this can be beautiful, but is the quality a person lives with and from that expresses their beauty. An openness, unguardedness, a sparkle in their eye…

144. Beauty is also intelligence and not in the “smart way” but I feel that when someone is expressing their beauty there is something so divine about it, you can see they know what they are doing.

145. I feel true beauty is when someone expresses what is innately coming from within, and this is a constant source of beauty.

146. I love how you have expressed this Adele, and that it is not a ‘quest’ to reach. ‘True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.’

147. Taking a moment to stop and reflect deeply on who I truly am and have always been this morning, I could feel the deep sensitivity and beauty I hold within and always have. As I ventured out into the world after that ‘stop’ moment all I could feel was the equally amazing essence of all others – the choice is ours.

148. I love what you are saying here Adele and how you bring it back to the way that we are living – “If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes? Are they puffy and have dark circles or reflecting the clarity that I know? Is my face reflecting my natural joy, and is my skin reflecting vitality? I certainly have noticed that the way that I feel about myself deeply affects how I live and how I live affects every cell in my body, including whether I am bringing my true beauty to things or not.

149. True beauty is very much an intrinsic and not extrinsic quality, as we have been lead to believe.

150. “We are all equally beautiful in our essence, and we can all choose to be aware of how this fact is expressed in our physical presence when we are not limited by the definition of what physical beauty is.” The crazy part is that social media is so caught in the physical beauty and that is what we as a society get drawn into rather than connect to the truth of our own essence. We give our power away to the outside rather than connecting to the power within.

     1. Dear Amita,
        The greatest power we hold is that of the tenderness and fragility that lies within. What I feel when I give my power away, it is not necessarily about allowing another to do what they do or that which they create to impact us. I feel it is when I stop allowing myself my fragility, when I harden and compress my body, hold it tight and with tension. Power is not about what is out there in our world, it is very much about honouring that which lies within.

151. I have been inspired to see just how beautiful I found people who lived in a way that honoured and nurtured themselves.

152. We hold so many different images about what true beauty is, keeping us feeling less and in contraction from our light. Letting go of these images creates space for our true beauty to shine through and inspire others to connect to it within themselves.

153. When we feel our own beauty, we can then recognize the same in everyone else

154. So many great points about how we can affect our true beauty, such as – am I “Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?” It’s a new way to look at how we can express true beauty via our connection to the essence within, and learning to hold and reflect that to everyone everyday.

155. Definitely agree Adele – the body cannot lie. We are what we are aligned to and our bodies are no exception to that energetic Law.

156. ‘We are all beautiful’, yes we are, it’s our choice whether we acknowledge and appreciate our beauty and then share it with everyone else in our every movement.

157. True beauty for me is the appreciation of all that we are and the joy that comes from living that in every moment. It’s in the movement of someone who knows and lives from their divinity and, consequently, shines as brightly as the stars.

158. Beauty is the essence of who we are, it’s that simple and it is free from all pictures, ideals or beliefs that are set to tell us otherwise.

159. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” This Truth eliminates all excuses we may make for Life not being the way would like to experience the World.

160. To me a person is truly beautiful to me in regards to how they feel to be around or spoken to. i am so glad to be building my own sense of inner beauty and to be gaining a much deeper appreciation of this too.

161. The rediscovery of true beauty is the unveiling more and more of our light and love embodied in life here on earth.

     1. And as we do, so the inspiration is there for others to do likewise until we and Mother Earth are restored to their True Light..

162. Adele what you share is beautiful ” true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically” it has to do with our essence, like you say we are beautiful in our essence, every single one of us. This is felt from with in.

163. There is so much more to beauty then meets the eye.. It seems the way society is currently, we put our beauty in the hands of the outside world. It’s all about fixing imperfections, enhancing what you’ve got and getting what you don’t have. But where is the responsibility in that? We each hold a true responsibility to cherish who we are and know that our beauty radiates from within. The who know and live that inner quality the more true beauty will be reflected to all.

164. The beauty we are is found deep within, the ‘beauty’ we are not lies on the surface, a shield we use to mask our true glory. That is, we fall for an image that cannot and will not ever match the majesty of our love, to afford us an excuse to not ‘go there’ a bring all that we are deep within, out into the world in which we live.

     “…true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.”

     – a consciousness buster of a line, thanks Adele. True beauty is our ability to live the Soul’s light on Earth, no more and no less.

165. Bringing our essence to the fore and expressing the true ‘us’ in every moment is Beauty beyond any beauty school, make-over or outside quest for this is a living beauty that emanates from inside, out.

166. It is true beauty that comes from within, letting ourselves feel this beauty is all that is needed to see this in others.

167. We are all beautiful. Yet, our beauty has no much to do with the images of what beauty is. Yet, our beauty can be captured by images of ours if we let it out and share with the world.

168. If we all allowed our true beauty to be lived, what a joyful world we would be living in!

169. We are bombarded with so much coming from outside of us, even our judgement on whether we are beautiful or not. Very correct – ‘beauty is only skin deep’ is how we treat beauty and it has actually impacted on many lives in the way of low self worth, esteem, not feeling good enough, or even denying ourselves with beauty, all based on the images of what beauty is. Then there is the saying – ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, is it still referring to skin deep beauty, or just different ‘flavours of images’.?? True beauty, as has exquisitely been expressed in this blog, is from the inside out. When we look at a rose, visually yes it is very beautiful, but it is something deeper that holds us in that moment, it is the emanation, the rose is fully open in bloom, and simply being a rose. We ALL are beautiful in the truest sense, when we allow that out to be shared, it’s our joy, our love, our essence. It shines through our eyes, our smiles, our warmth, our connecting with others and so forth. Beauty is forever expressing if we allow it out.

170. Judgment about our beauty and our looks often starts at a very young age and then we hold that judgment in our bodies and this totally dampens down our self worth. Our world would be such a different place if we were all accepted for who we truly are from very young and we would not be spending so many years repairing the damage from these ideals and beliefs!

171. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.” This may take some time, given the current levels of self hate and self loathing, but as one person reclaims and celebrates their own beauty so to does that inspire the next. At the end of the day self loathing is effecting humanity in how we view ourselves and we need to ask are we adding or helping to heal the problem.

172. There seems to be no end to the depth of beauty we hold within us. The more I discover my own beauty the more I get to see that same beauty in others.

173. No matter how I look now, it is always my own choice to decide how I feel about myself. If I understand that all is a process, nothing is as permanent as I think, everything is just an on-going process of what energy I have aligned to. Knowing what energy I choose is much more important than what I see in one individual moment.

174. When we expand the definition of self-care to also include how we express, how honest and accepting we are with ourselves, we expand the ways in which beauty can be expressed. Understanding beauty as a skin-deep concept feels very flat and limiting. As you’ve shared Adele, beauty is an expression of who we are at our core, through so much more than our physicality.

     1. Agreed Bryony. I used to believe that ‘beauty fades’ but now I know the complete opposite is true. In fact I have seen women in my life grow more beautiful by the day… even as they approach their 90’s! It totally turns the commonly accepted concept of beauty on its head. One that is truly living beauty sees it reflected in every face they encounter. They celebrate those who have chosen to shine and they see the healing on offer for those that choose to keep their beauty hidden.

175. True beauty is our connection with our own quality and stillness within and the expression of it through our movements.

176. Our beauty is a reflection of our soul’s light and when we really soak it up and appreciate every drop of it, it has no where else to go but to permeate through.

177. What I deeply sense from this blog is how beauty is something within us, that we can come back to, not something to achieve, and more hugely… that beauty is universal, so never ever individually as beauty is divine and divinity is there within us all.. How incredible .. simply by your words the connection of the word beauty (in true essence) can be felt within every single heart. Thank you Adele, I am so glad you in your profession are nailing the lies; ideals, images and beliefs about this huge subject!

178. Love your descriptions of the physical manifestations of what we choose to express of ourselves to the outside world – ‘when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes’. You remind us that there’s no need for anything else but a real commitment to appreciating who we truly are for that depth of beauty within – which is in all of us – to be seen, felt and heard.

179. I have noticed that the more I claim my essence and who I truly am the more beautiful I become. I have also noticed that it is the same for everyone.

180. We have reduced beauty to an outer appearance, fed by the media, the film and TV industry and advertising companies putting pictures into our heads what beauty is supposed to look like. When we can free ourselves from these pictures we are able to see beauty again in many places – the spark in someone’s eyes, the lightness of a step, the grace of a movement, the choice of a color to wear… the essence we all come from is breathtakingly beautiful so all we need to do is stop hiding it and let it shine out.

181. The interesting thing I observed in my work as a beauty advisor is that often the women who tick the most boxes in regard to the pictures we consider beautiful in our society, are the most concerned about their appearance, often cannot see their own beauty and stress a lot about their looks. It seems like there is such an high investment in fulfilling these pictures and the trimmings that come with that, that their whole self-confidence and identification depends on it.

182. To say that we are all beautiful is an idiom that is commonly thrown around a lot. But to truly understand, to truly live by the wisdom of that simple statement actually takes quite a bit of reflection. It takes a lot of work to begin to appreciate oneself in a world that is constantly taking from us in ways we don’t even want to understand. It is not easy – at first. And yet, if one is to truly understand love, and joy, then it is the only way. You have to start making self love a lived priority in the smallest of details. You need to move in honouring of your essence, and your beauty, even if you don’t feel like it. Through that constant movement, and constant reminder of your own worth via making truly self loving choices, you eventually arrive at a place of exquisite beauty that comes from within. Live takes on a different rhythm. But even at that point, there is a trap. And that is the trap of not stopping and appreciating in full what you have allowed yourself to connect to, that the love you feel actually is yours to behold, to honour, to express. That in itself takes some getting used to.

     1. Yes I agree Adam, it does take some getting used to. To value ourselves means we have to essentially turn upside down every way we have known to live. For in my experience, what I used to live held no true loving value for my essence and that which I and each of us actually has to offer our world.

183. No lotion, potion, cream or ointment can ever hide our lack of love.

     1. And no amount of hiding can ultimately veil our immensity of love.

184. When we recognise each other merely from a physical sense we are completely denying the absolute divinity of our innate but unique essences, our true beauty.

185. It is easy to get hung up on ideals and beliefs of what it means to be beautiful, but there is a beauty within us which far exceeds anything the outer beauty came conjure up. When you see the beauty in others it does not matter how old they are or what they look like, for in that moment they are the most beautiful being you have ever seen.

186. There is an endless well of beauty that lies within us and when connected to the source that we are equally part of, every expression is beautiful and honouring of the truth of our Soulful light.

187. True beauty is always found when you look deep into another’ s eyes and hold them in the love you know yourself to be knowing that first and foremost this love is who they also are equally so.

188. “Why are you hiding your beauty?’ – was the first thing Serge Benhayon said to me when I first saw him. It has taken me a long time to truly understand what he meant, and it still is an ongoing process for me.

     1. What is deeply beautiful for me in people is when I feel an emanation from their movements which is aligned to the natural harmony and order of the Universe.

189. This is a great reminder Adele! We are bombarded with pictures and comments as in articles of the way people look, that the Media puts out for us to judge ourselves against. To be focused on this one dimension of life to the detriment of the truth of who we truly are, is to sit on the surface and not see the deeper aspects of each other. This causes much pain and a lack of self Love so the world is a much poorer place!The richness that each of us brings through our originality pooled together is in truth where the beauty is.

     1. Roslyn Mahony thank you for raising a great point here. The levels of media bombardment has harmed beyond what we could ever imagine. I recently had a conversation with a gorgeous young woman at my local gym who had obviously chosen to have regular cosmetic surgery. Over time she felt comfortable to share about her procedures and spoke about how much she wanted to look different. Interesting to note here that my understanding of cosmetic surgery was loaded with images and beliefs of wanting to look younger and now the levels have gone to remodelling and reshaping the face to look like another person.

190. I love the depth of beauty that can be seen and felt through another eyes or in their smile. This is truly beautiful, and a little window into the grandness that is within us. It makes the outside appearance seem very one dimensional.

191. “When I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.” I have been aware of this too Adele and the more appreciation and acceptance of myself, my skin is glowing and sharing in my bodies deep joy for the glow is but a reflection of the inner quality of beauty shining through. Our bodies are truly awesome in what they share from every possible angle.

192. ‘with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital., This is what looking after ourselves is really all about. The deeper we can go with this the more joy there is to be had.

193. In each new century, there is a change of fashion or a new definition it is to be beautiful. It is really a cycle going around and around not changing the core to how we represent beauty.

     Beauty is innately owned by us all as the spark in someone’s eye is enough to melt hearts and redefine the meaning of a beautiful man and woman.

194. “I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.” How simple beauty then is. No handbook needed only learning to express from our truth, which our bodies know best to express when we let them.

195. Beauty is an image that is often sold to us. Stopping the images and getting real about what is feels like within is the true marker of beauty and walking this each day is just part of this simple process.

196. We are all beautiful because deep within all the layers of protection that we carry with us (in varying degrees) lies the same immortal soul, and the same divine spark that comes from a universality. When I connect to that beauty my heart cannot help but melt.

197. True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.

     We all have such beauty within, it is sad how the word beauty has been bastardised and so many think of it meaning just physical attributions. Beauty belongs to everyone of all ages, races and colour, we are all so amazing we just need to claim it uncompromisingly.

198. True beauty for me comes from a feeling of openness and allowing myself to be seen, either in the mirror to myself or with others. Flowers naturally do this, they bloom and show off all that they are and when a person does this it’s an even grander sight to behold and feel.

199. To me beauty is that sparkle inside reflected out through someone’s eyes, or their cheekiness and playfulness, or their absolute love and presence in a conversation – it does not matter what size, shape, colour, age or height they are!

     1. I love what you are saying here Simon and it is so true, there is so much beauty in any person it is just a matter of whether we allow us to see it or whether we are blinded by all the images we think beauty to be.

     2. For me one of the things beauty is, is the connection the person has with themselves. To be around someone that is completely content and accepting of themselves is a very beautifull thing as in doing this it gives other permission to do the same to. As you have shared it has absolutely nothing do to with physical appearance more how willing someone is to love and be loved.

200. Deeply appreciating and understanding ourselves is for me the key to feeling our beauty, it is always holding ourselves in this space, allows for us to claim our beauty all day long, our inner and outer beauty.

201. I am learning day by day of the beauty that comes from within that is a reflection of what we are living. Our bodies and complexion show what we are eating, the choices we are making, such as when we rest and sleep, and I have seen what think reflected in faces as well. Bitter thoughts find their way to sit in a bitter face. There is nowhere to hide. Confronting and empowering.

202. Beauty sure is much more than skin deep. For me looking into someones eyes makes me melt – the depth and strength we carry within is incredible – no matter who we are or what we have done we all have it within ourselves. It is just more noticeable the more we embrace and accept it within ourselves.

203. These are some great questions to regularly ask ourselves Adele,’ Am I ‘taking care of myself tenderly?
     Nurturing my body in true health?
     Committed to expressing equality with others no matter what?
     Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?
     Holding myself always in appreciation and understanding?’
     Remembering to appreciate ourself is still a big one for me.

204. What is revealed here in this blog is how often our deep lack of self worth or loathing drives us to change or mask the way we look rather than re connect to our inner hearts which remain unsullied.

205. It is an honour to watch another deepen in their own self-acceptance and how their inner beauty shines from every pore of their being.

206. At first it seems strange to link the idea of responsibility and living our inner beauty together. HOwever in the bigger picture it makes so much sense, for without our own self acceptance how can we claim our place and purpose in life.

207. Indeed Adele we have been conditioned so much to think about ourselves in terms of the perception of others and the current belief of what is beautiful in society. The beauty that you are describing here is the inner beauty of the soul shining through.

208. We are so conditioned to be hard on ourselves and in doing this is sn ongoing practice by as you say, csring lovingly for ourselves and feeling the equal love in essence that we all are connected to and from.

209. When I am with God, in the rhythm of stillness that I have come to feel from my body, nothing else matters. I feel beautiful and my body confirms that.

210. Uncoupling beauty from our physicality is a very needed step, for men and women equally so.

211. I love looking at my own reflection when i am connected to myself and to God. My eyes look so sparkling then, like there are little stars shining in there and what I notice, also with others, I can see we are not from here, but from divinity.

212. I love your questions and especially: “Am I choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?” There is so much beauty in movements. They are vital as they form the foundation for the choices we make. Are we moving in a way to offers us truth, love and harmony or are we moving to hide, seek comfort and live in separation?

213. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” And this also reflects our beauty. A person in connection with their soul has a magnetic pull and I cannon but fall in love with their beauty.

214. These are exactly the lies we are sold each and every day from all different angles: “We have been sold that what beauty is lies in our outer appearances, such as how we appear in height, weight, proportions, body and facial features, whether our skin is of a certain shade of colour or luminosity, down to how we dress and/or accessorise ourselves.” We only have to look at all the magazines to see people that suit the current cultural beauty concept.Almost like true beauty is hidden. Could it be too powerful?

215. ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.’ This is so true. I was shown this recently when I went through a stage of not liking my hair (sometimes I still do) this has nothing to do with my actual hair but instead my relationship with me and how much am I living and loving me and being the tender, gentle and loving woman I know I am. … or how much I am not! Beauty is definietly more than skin deep.

216. Adele- I love the question you pose here about if how we are living has a direct effect on our physical features. I say absolutely. If I am tired, stressed and run down, I walk with my shoulders closed in, I walk without being absolutely aware and am therefore clumsy, I don’t dress to appreciate me but rather to hide me, my hair and skin get very dry and I absolutely see the circles under my eyes. But if I continue to take responsibility to not get stressed or racy, and stay in the moment, then I walk in full, i dress to celebrate the day, and I look full of life. No amount of makeup can do that.

217. Thank you Adele for a lovely sharing, all our choices are mirrored in our face, and when we live with loving acceptance of our divine inner essence we cannot help but shine this beauty through our outer being.

218. As lived in your life, Adele – outside presentation can change and it is also subject to the perspective of another. What is within is equal in all, is constant and Beautiful – our pure essence. The choice is ours – do we allow what is outside of us to dictate our worth or do we choose to stay connected to the essence of who we are and live, appreciate and celebrate this everyday.

219. I can feel a great connection to the truth in these words: “What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” I f we are feeling any less than our natural harmony which brings, joy, love and many other beautiful qualities we are not living our truth, and hurting ourselves causing disharmony in the way we feel. It’s hard to maintain yet can start us on the external search for a relief. It’s simply a choice to step back to our original source and birth right, not seek and substitute from any 3rd party influence.

220. Beauty definitely comes from within and is eternal when the outer beauty will reflect the inner beauty which will be shining through the whole body.

221. Accepting and loving ourselves deeply helps us to build a relationship with our inner self and our soul, and then this inner beauty shines out for all to feel and see.

222. What is truly beautiful is a person who accepts themself in full regardless of whether or not they are physically beautiful by society’s standards for we then can see that innermost part of them that is the same in all of us and which we truly know ourselves by.

223. Yes beauty of a superficial will never be defined but constantly change throughout the ages.

     The real definition of beauty is through a person’s soul.

224. Very beautiful Adele…. “It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” It is in re-connecting with ourselves in essence, our Soulful nature that we are truly beautiful.

225. Adele you speak of essence here – which is becoming more and more apparent in my life. Like you I spent many years making sure the exterior looked OK to get by. If you put on makeup and nice clothes and a smile, you get left alone – but what about the times when you just wake up and see the true raw you in the mirror and think ‘why do I look so tired?’ – Through the teachings of Universal Medicine I understood that our essence is what is left when we take all the masks and roles and doing away – it is who we truly are. And if we start to allow that out – if we start to feel that and appreciate what we bring, then as you say – this is reflected on the outside – something that no amount of makeup or facials or clothing can hep with. Because what begins to shine through is the real us.

226. I am now 56 years and never I feel more beautiful than ever before. The idea of beauty depending on the outside has had its influence although I always knew that beauty is not about how we look. Since I started to truly live me, I see how my eyes sparkle and my face lightens up and my posture straightens. I have let go of the image I had about myself in the past and I sparkle and shine when I am in harmony with myself, that’s all that is asked from us.

227. The most beautiful feeling I have ever felt is bringing the depth of me in my very normal daily life consistently with everyone I meet.

228. There is no wriggle room on this line – “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” Power-full and simple words that are very true. It is always our own choice not to feel our own beauty. And I love that it is there – always – in all of us – waiting to be expressed.

229. How I live has a huge impact on how I view myself on a superficial level. I can feel there are many different versions of my outer skin I can see all dependant on how I have cared for myself. If I know I have not looked after myself then the person I see in the mirror is unattractive, and the opposite is true if I have made loving choices.

230. It is amazing how a description of beauty can go from one polar opposite to the other..”Within months of my birth, I have been defined as being both ugly and beautiful, so nothing on the outside is really as fixed as we think…” It is interesting how much as a human race, the initial look of someone or something is relied upon and used to judge or to distinguish between what is beautiful and what is not, instead of using the whole six senses to connect, feel and receive a true impression.

     1. What I have observed also is there is truth or no truth. There is love or no love. There is nothing in between.

231. In my late teens while in a period of deep self-reflection and clearing, my skin presented all my ill choices for me to see. I remembered seeing TV commercials with women advertising for face cleansers with flawless skin and rosy cheeks and I compared myself with them, immediately my self-confidence dropped into an unending black hole. There is a deeper responsibility that the world of advertising has to take in showing what is true, as women with a flawless complexion and rosy skintone is not a true normal but a perfected ideal. There is also a deeper responsibility we all have to take in discerning what is true or not, as well as taking care of ourselves, for the truth is our beauty before it is seen on the outside is already alive and expressing deep within us.

232. If we judge beauty according to a standard or to an ideal picture, we are simply missing many moments of our own true beauty, these are links and building blocks towards feeling our beauty consistently. In my experience, saying NO to what does not feel true is very beautiful, but if we judge this as bad (with the picture that beauty is only the end result of harmony) then we are accepting a reduced version of ourselves, but we are truly grand and our beauty also.

233. “Living the beauty that feels true within me” I love that phrase Adele and it is so true, beauty is to be lived and not to be gained by improving the outer only. The inner needs to be nurtured equally.

234. What wonderful questions to ask Adele, questions that support and deepen our connect to true inner wisdom and beauty.
     Today I am particularly inspired by; “Holding myself always in appreciation and understanding”.

235. The deepening of beauty is the deepening of our own love reflected and expressed for all.

236. Using visual means to determine beauty can be deceiving, however the feeling you get when connected to your essence is really beautiful

237. In my teens I fell for the trap that if you did not look like the models in the magazines or the beautiful actresses on the TV screen then some how you must be less, and that it means you are ugly. I am sure this has happened to many a young girl and will continue for some time to come until we stop looking at these images as if this is a marker of what beauty is supposed to look like – this could not be further from the truth.

238. “We are all equally beautiful in our essence, and we can all choose to be aware of how this fact is expressed in our physical presence when we are not limited by the definition of what physical beauty is.” – I love this Adele, it’s very freeing, inviting us to drop any expectations or ideals we have about how we think we should look and instead allow ourselves to develop our true inner expression unhindered.

239. With true responsibility we are connected to ourself and a universal beauty that is within all of us. Getting to see the beauty we have within is very important as all we are is in there. Knowing this we can see that this in everyone.

240. Thank you Adele, true beauty does come from within and especially from how much we allow of ourselves out to be seen by the world…and hence “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.”…these are powerful words indeed, as they leave us with the choice, a knowing that how we are makes a huge difference.

241. I so know this to be true Adele, absolute beauty is when we allow our soul to express through our body. Every part of our physical then reflects that. If this was understood and lived by everyone, the beauty industry would go out of business! I’ve spent most my teenage/adult life looking for that magic potion that would give me the skin and glow I always wanted. I found it, but it wasn’t something outside of me and it wasn’t magic, it came from inside, it comes from taking responsibility for how I live, breathe, work, play and relate to everything in life. A beauty duller is frustration, emotions and stress.

242. Unless we feel the beauty within we will be forever at the mercy of every one and every thing around us comparing ourselves to another and wanting to fix whatever we think needs fixing. In truth there is nothing to fix. Reading this blog is a beautiful confirmation in that every time I am true to me and expressing this truth it brings forth a beauty words cannot describe. It is not in the way I look but in the quality of my livingness.

243. True beauty is feeling how gorgeous we are on the inside, and then making sure we share that with everyone. This is the light that shines in our eyes.

244. We all know the adage that beauty is more than skin deep but this blog takes us on a scuba dive to even deeper levels of understanding. I had never made the connection between self-responsibility and true beauty before but it is a really profound proposition, requiring us to see that it’s the way we’re living that matters – not just the adornment, pampering, gentle tenderness towards ourselves, the early nights and the healthy eating, but it’s a deeper knowing of what is true for and in our bodies and from there choosing to listen to that, to let our bodies guide us. ‘No alterations of body parts necessary, no special beauty or skin care treatments needed’, just a commitment to making responsible choices that then begin to radiate out and reflect the natural beauty we are within.

245. Bingo Adele, you have just given the world the best beauty secret away! Be all the real you with all that you say and do and share it. This is the real beauty that we are all craving for. Not the illusion that can be bought from a bottle.

246. When a woman moves from her inner true sexy, it’s almost like you feel her before you really see her, as her emanating inner beauty, precedes her.

247. ‘ I have been defined as being both ugly and beautiful, so nothing on the outside is really as fixed as we think.’ – We can live our lives defined by other perceptions of us, for whatever their reason is – or by the true beauty we are within.

248. Liberation from the common definition of physical beauty is a freedom I hope every woman will feel one day, when you start to see your beauty as inside you first and foremost and you realise that beauty has an unreachable unending depth, and that your physical attributes are merely an addition to that – wow now that is true freedom.

249. Those critical thoughts that we have of ourselves and how we are trying to fit into a picture of what is beautiful and what is not is soul distorying. When I started to bring awareness to my thoughts and then realised how critical I was being – with the support of Serge Benhayon explaining how we do not have our own thoughts it is in fact and energy that we are choosing to make our thoughts; I could bring the power back to me. By working on the type of energy I choose determines how I feel about myself. Choosing Love and living this with appreciation of who I really am and not what I look like has been massive.

250. Feeling beautiful is a choice we all have at any moment that can be expressed by our movements and the way we hold ourselves, it is a reflection so needed and sought by many.

251. Beauty is our connection to God and our willingness to share that openly.

252. True beauty resides within every one of us. It is felt first and foremost. How does a blind person see beauty? They use what we have forgotten how to use. By our choice, we have evolved to use our eyes as a shortcut.
     By not feeling, we have the eyesight of a dog, clear but in black and white. Life is vivid and beautiful when felt.

253. True beauty comes from deep inside, its an inner beauty that shines out for all to see.

254. One’s experience of the world is majestic when one sees the inner beauty instead of the superficial outer.

255. There is no beauty like that of the Soul, and yet we deny its immanent presence for the allure of a candy cane and a bright ribbon.

256. It’s only in the last few years that I have realised how one moment I can feel as ugly as an old house and then the next day or even later that day I can feel absolutely gorgeous. I eventually worked out it was because of how I felt about myself within.

257. Beauty is a magic that we all carry, we can attempt to hide it, bury it or overlay it however it can never be corrupted – it is our Godliness divinity and birthright.

258. I agree that True Beauty is a living quality that shines forth for all to see. When we accept ourselves and love ourselves dearly, our inner beauty cannot but come to the fore for all to feel and see.

259. Reading this article made me feel really good in knowing that irrespective of our appearance we all have an amazing inner beauty

260. It certainly has been true in my life that when I have seen someone who clearly loves themselves, life and others deeply they shine and glow and have a twinkle in their eyes!

261. It is incredible when you stop to consider it that we have been sold beauty as something that some of us have and some of us do not. We even probably assumed it is a rare thing. But to understand that beauty is something far deeper and grander than how symmetrical or flawless our features are and something that we all actually have equally is completely the opposite to what we have been led to believe.

262. ‘With self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital.’ – how cool is that – self responsibility is the new botox!

263. We know that beauty is more than skin deep but the depth of the truth in this is not consciously chosen and lived. We are very visually influenced in our perception of what beauty is and this can get in the way of feeling and truly knowing the beauty of others and our own beauty. A recent experience in my interactions with another whilst being in the experience of a deeply felt love of myself transformed and allowed me to know that ‘Beauty’ is indeed so much more than skin deep.

264. Hello Adele and I love what you have written and in particular, “Everything we see on the surface reflects the responsibility we have taken, in expressing the true quality that is within us all equally.” As you say if we bring awareness to going deeper then just the surface the whole world opens up just as we have. Beauty is much more then what just meets the eye and we are surrounded by it, all we need do is appreciate the fact.

265. True beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, such an old saying and one that is so true. Also “Beauty is much more than skin deep.” it really is, it is not something that can be judged or critiqued, we all hold an exquisite depth of beauty when we are connected to our essence and living from there.

     1. I agree raegankcairney and I have just considered that this saying perhaps has a far deeper meaning than we realise as to behold includes far more than just visual perception. It includes feeling energy and the essence of someone and sensing and understanding who they truly are.

266. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” How true, Adele, the fact is that we can choose how we are going to feel – now that can be confronting to most of us. When we are not feeling beautiful, our great tendency is to look for something or someone else to blame for this lack. How crazy is this, others are not responsible for our feeling great, it is up to us to change our whole attitude. If we stop when we feel this lack of beauty, stop and connect with ourselves, we cannot help but feel just how beautiful we are. When we connect, we can feel the love that we are within, that surely brings out the smile on our face, brings out the joy that is there to be felt. How simple is that, but it can turn my day around in a short interlude with myself. So how our day is comes down to how I make my choices.

267. True beauty cannot be seen only with the eyes, it can only be seen and felt if we include our heart.

268. I always love reading your blogs Adele for the simplicity and deep wisdom you always express. I especially liked this line ‘What I have realized now is that I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me. ‘ Well said and the more we all claim and live this truth the more we inspire others to also make this loving choice.

269. We have been sold what beauty should look like! What if we weighed all the products we have ever purchased to achieve the nirvana of beauty we have been sold? Have we succeeded in giving the producers of these products our weight in gold? All of this fluffing around trying to improve nature that has created one of a kind individuals that are all masterpieces!

270. Adele it was beautiful to read the blog again, it has so many gems to reflect on. We have it in ourselves to choose to connect to the beauty we are from within. It is that beauty that emanates out, external beauty is constantly changing and dependant of how we feel inside. The more we self nurturer, love and care for our selves the more we are able to connect to the true beauty within us to share with others.

271. You make a great point when you write about being judged as both beautiful and ugly within a short span of time; the same can happen when we look at ourselves in the mirror: one moment okay, the next we are apparently not. What has happened? Our physique hasn’t changed, for sure. What else is going on here? It underlines your point that true beauty is more than skin deep and not what we have been led to believe it is.

272. I yearned for physical beauty – holding this ‘just out of reach’ something as the answer to all my troubles. The madness and cruelty of this is revealed as I come to understand more deeply all that Adele has shared. We are all beautiful, and the outward expression of this is guaranteed when we acknowledge, accept and appreciate ourselves and our innate qualities.

273. Having travelled the world it is clear that beauty is not a prescriptive set of rules, not a body shape, not a length of the nose, and not a waist measurement. Beauty is an expression of being willing to be who we are.

274. True beauty is when we connect to the essence of who we are and express that through our movements and don’t hold back shining the light and love of who we are.

275. the linking of not feeling beautiful to the allowing of disharmony in our bodies offers us the opportunity to go deeper and uncover the energy that causes us to feel this way. In essence we cannot but feel beautiful so it is very simple: when we do not we are not ourselves and engaging ideals, images, expectations that come from outside of us.

276. Thank you Adele, for showing us the meaning of true beauty and your experience with it. And this coming from a woman herself who is working in the beauty industry is very inspirational.. The connection that it brings to us simply reading this blog is magnifique. A discovery that beauty resides within, and that it is our power.

277. ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.’ – Deeply powerful Adele, it is a choice. This brings the responsibility right back to where it belongs – ourselves.

278. We are so judgemental and harsh on ourselves when it comes to our looks, and I have come to realise that feeling beautiful and looking beautiful are two completely different things, it’s easy to pick apart what you see, but when you feel beautiful it has a depth and eminence that you cannot deny – you simply are beautiful.

279. It is wonderful thing to start to connect to the inner beauty in everyone, to see the Divine essence that is common to all and to see past all those images we are told are important in our world. It is like meeting people afresh every day, as if for the first time. To me, this is an experience of Grace.

280. So true Adele Leung. I was apparently quite a handsome young man but I did not feel that within and it was my inner experience that dictated how I felt about myself – not what people saw on the outside. A person connected to their inner beauty is beautiful no matter what.

281. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, why don’t we look inward first to find the real measure of what is beautiful? When we fixate on achieving what the outside world is presenting what is beauty from photoshopped unrealistic and physically impossible bodies are we not lost and buying into them? When we go down this rabbit hole with Alice in the search of beauty, we become obsessed with things only we can see.

282. Adele, when you talk about not feeling beautiful as a choice to be in dis-harmony with the natural harmony within our bodies, I am reminded of how simple beauty is and and such, how uncomplicated I can be should I allow it.

283. Instead of plastic surgery we could go for responsibility. It would be so much less pain, money and so much more fun and truly lasting. It would not be bettering my outer expression, but finding the true depth of my Soul.

284. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born”.
     What a beautiful expression Adele, unveiling and expressing of a deep inner knowing; these words are very powerful and carry a deep inner wisdom, thank you.

285. What a golden statement…”When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us…” When we have a moment feeling this, it is a great signal that we have disconnected from that gorgeous essence, or presence, and then let in comparison to judge ourselves against something outside of our body. It is a great moment to re-turn back to the body and reconnect back to that beautiful quality of whats inside us.

286. I am beginning to appreciate how beautiful we all are, once we remove all comparison and judgment, our connection is much deeper and our ability to appreciate another’s beauty becomes very natural.

287. How the saying beauty is only skin deep came to be I don’t know, for there is a well of beauty in everyone that bubbles up and overflows every time they laugh or get enthusiastic about something they are passionate about, or when they smile and it lights up their eyes or they talk to you totally openly and honestly, or the moment of connection when you meet and talk to them, or the warmth of their hug. There is a never ending beauty in a person that has nothing to do with looks and is deeper than any physical form.

288. Seeking beauty is such an excessive waste of time, money and energy. By re-discovering the magic that lies within us all, it opens up a new view of the world in which we live. Yes, we still see the results of trying to be something more because we feel we are not enough and the toll of what a hard non-appreciating life has shaped our body. Now we can see past all of these labels and just feel the magic that is still in there in everyone!

289. Thoughts on self-doubt and lack of self-worth are there all the time, but are these thoughts really ours? With a consistency of movement we have built with ourselves in appreciation and confirmation we will become more solid in discerning if these thoughts are truly true and if we allow them to grab a hold of us.

     1. Adele, beautifully expressed. I used to think I’d failed because I had thoughts of self-doubt etc. Now they are far, far less but the beauty is that I can feel they are not me and I do not have to give them any attention. They are a great indicator to come back to me.

        1. Great call Karin. Thoughts are just that–thoughts, but how so often we “think” they are truth when the truth is thoughts come through us instead of from us.

290. True beauty is the reflection of our soul.

     1. Yes sometimes talking to someone you can suddenly feel it as their face lights up or their eyes begin to sparkle.

     2. This is truly beautiful Francisco. True beauty in words.

291. Through the decades what defined beauty of the time has changed considerably. Things that remained constant and noticeable were a sense of grace and compassion and a person who knew themselves. We know that looking good on the outside is not enough. We all have the opportunity to refelct great beauty to anyone who chooses to see it.

     1. Nicole, “Through the decades what defined beauty of the time has changed considerably. Things that remained constant and noticeable were sense of grace and compassion and a person who knew themselves.” This is the absolute consistency that is held by people that we consider to hold true beauty. I have felt this in elderly gentleman where the concept of todays beauty cannot be applied, yet in being in their presence there is such beauty in the grace and sense of self that they hold themselves by.

292. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices”.
     So true Adele, we all carry the same love, light and wisdom dulled only by poor choices we sometimes make.
     A lovely, confirming blog to read, thank you.

293. It is so important that this message is understood because within this understanding of beauty lies one of the paths of liberation to humanity

294. Beauty for men in our society often means having bulging biceps, a rippling stomach and a handsome look. What if true beauty was none of these but the tenderness we really are and feel underneath?

     1. A man who is comfortable with his body does not need to show off or get recognition from his physicality and yet there is no hiding the love and care he has taken for himself and the tenderness that comes with that.

295. Thank you Adele for turning on its head the ideal that beauty is only for a select few that fit into a certain picture. We are all equally beautiful and this quality comes from inside us and is reflected out from our bodies. The more we live in a way that nurtures ourselves lovingly the more our natural beauty shines for all to see.

296. Mirrors are our external confirmation of the connection we have with ourselves, and when I move as if under the control of time (the control is illusive as it is my own choice to leave the connection with myself) the deep beauty I know cannot be felt. This happens when I put makeup on in a rush, and I have found that it makes no sense to put anything on my face when I do not feel the deep beauty within myself first.

297. On Monday I looked in the mirror and saw myself as beautiful. On Tuesday, I did the same as saw I was ugly. I did my normal check. Was it my clothes? Was it my hair, my teeth? Maybe it was that spot on my skin I have never noticed before. At a loss as to how I had become so ugly overnight, I trudged out the door as I had run out of time. What a pity I never stopped to consider that it was all to do with the way I felt about myself before I even stood up to the mirror. I could have saved myself so much time.

     1. You have captured the human self indulgence to a tee Adam.

        1. I am not sure it was so much indulgence I was describing but rather the fact that we should question what drives our perception of beauty.

        2. Thanks Adam, you have made me realise that I have totally mis-translated and misinterpreted the word indulgence… What I meant here was more in the field of self-obsession or incessant self-focus and the constant searching for flaws in ourselves. I agree, we definitely need to question what drives us.

298. Even the most perfect looking all criteria of physical beauty ticking person looks and feels dull without inner beauty radiating from eyes and skin and everything.

     1. Indeed Alex – there is no magnetic pull in emptiness.

        1. Indeed Eva, there is a constant drive that completely erases the beauty of the light that is held with and this drive pushes the body constantly to keep it in some sort of motion, be that physical or emotional motion to keep oneself from feeling the beauty and stillness of their presence. As once felt the drive begins to loose its grip and instead the person chooses to change how they move, and care for their body and grace begins to be seen in the body of those that choose their beauty and stillness to be the predominant energy that moves their body. In this grace the presence of God is felt and there is a feeling of fullness and clarity.

299. When we start to see true beauty in another and ourselves we start to recognise God.

     1. Absolutely Alex life is that simple if we so choose to reconnect.

     2. Accepting the divinity that we are is a movement towards the responsibility of expressing the divine in human life.

        1. Amen – the purpose of life in one sentence.

300. Adele I have been pondering on your beautiful blog – and for some reason the image of a very large old elephant sprang to mind – displaying openly without judgment of the ravages of time, the thirsty skin bared without protection, hiding or restraint – and we can look upon this great creature and marvel at how beautiful it is, just naturally accepting of its great wrinkles and sagging skin. Hmmm. I wonder why I smile when I think of this elephant – and do we/I look at the physical image in the mirror and see such beauty being reflected when the decades have passed us by or do we now not only stop at the outer packageing but feel and see as well the radiance from within.

301. very beautiful I’m sure Brendan 🙂

302. As suggested by the composition of the word itself, to be beautiful is to be filled with beauty. It is the expression of this that is then seen and felt by those around us.

303. I can remember being young being influenced by the magazines and wanting to be a model, and this I did here and there for a while but soon got to feel and realise that it was a soulless industry. I have never felt more beautiful than I do now and it has nothing what so ever to do with my looks or body and has everything to do with my connection to the sexy, sacred woman that I am within. They are two worlds apart in how they make you feel and I know now that the later is the only way I want to live my life. Being All of the Woman that I am and not afraid of showing it.

     1. The modelling industry is controlled by the objectification of people, most models have never felt they were a person and they have accepted this to be the way to be recognized, they are not seen as human but an object. There is no true beauty in being objectified or an industry that heralds objectification, simply because there is no love in this.

        1. This is a great expose Adele, there are some industries where people are not seen as people but as mere objects and that makes it so very worth-less for everyone as we will never find truth in there, simply due to the fact that there is no connection offered only two (maybe for the eye three) dimensional flatness but no heartfelt expression.

     2. I find this also most beautifully expressed and concur with this. Feeling more content and settled in myself lets me feel my own beauty from the inside out and a gaze in the mirror is simply a confirmation of the beauty that I feel. This blows the concept of beauty out of the water and brings us back to what true beauty is, it is our essence that is undeniably beautiful which has nothing to do with looks or body features.

304. Beauty is much more than skin deep – it is the true beauty from within that radiates out (when we allow it) that actually allows a person to blossom. Without this, no amount of make up or surgery can make a person deeply and truly beautiful – they might appear to tick the boxes of societal ‘beauty’ with the hair, make up and body shape, but in the end the eyes and the ‘real-deal’ glow is what gives it away. Thank you Adele, for your sharing.

     1. Spot on Shirley, it is like a glow, as if someone has turned on the sunshine inside they body and this is something you cannot miss!

305. It’s an interesting thing that we know deep within that beauty is more than our physical appearance but do we understand that how we feel about ourself shines like a light outwards very often influencing how we look, especially in our eyes. It is much more than simply having a positive outlook, for that seems like a mental activity alone. Knowing and living the fact that we are always beautiful is always going to be influenced by the way we treat ourselves and the way we are with ourselves is, never about “making ourselves beautiful’. For how can we make something beautiful that already is?

306. I’ve recently been having just the best time with myself – feeling open and honest about life, and in-joying the connection with alot of different people (especially on a retreat last week). What occurs to me about the experience is that physical beauty has very little to do with it – its the eyes that shine, there is a distinct quality in really spending time with people that can be felt…. and that is absolutely irresistible!

307. Isn’t it funny how it is now considered glib to say something like “everyone is beautiful” do we really love in such a cynical society that the idea that we could all feel beautiful is not possible and can be laughed at?

     1. Rebecca I do not know what glib means, but my feeling from your comment is that the phrase ‘everyone is beautiful’ has always been hollow. Just a concept that is not truly felt and lived. And so if we do not see the true beauty in everyone, which we cannot without seeing it in ourselves, a phrase like that simple withers away over time.

        1. I think glib might be an english term, but it means sort of insincere and shallow, so your understanding is perfect. When we say phrases like everyone is beautiful in a world where a vast majority of the population doesn’t feel it and can’t connect to it, it is hollow.

     2. I suppose it is the lack of self-worth and hence of appreciation as well as the need for individuality that struggles with divine beauty being in everyone equally.

308. ‘Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.’ – This is such a powerful statement Adele – every choice we make can be read in our faces, our bodies, the way we move. A constant reflection of our choices.

     1. It is a gorgeous statement and one that changes the game forever, it shows how much power we have on how we feel, what we look like and what is before us. And a great reminder that our choices are not about being good, better or right but about the surrender to this Inner Light so it can shine uninhibited.

309. We are Gods children – how could we not be beautiful? Only when we make us or see us as less than we are we avoid our responsibility and so deny our beauty. But nothing can replace the true natural beauty we are and so we will never get fulfilled by any outside products, clothing or transactions. Nothing can compare with our connection to who we truly are. And this is seen.

     1. ‘nothing can replace the true natural beauty we are and so we will never get fulfilled by any outside products, clothing or transactions. Nothing can compare with our connection to who we truly are.’ … absolutely, Sandra. Nothing on the ‘outside’ can compare to the beauty that we naturally are on the inside and when we walk away from this, we will be forever searching, until we choose to reconnect to what has always been there for us.

        1. This is a brilliant expression Alison: when we walk away from our connection/inner beauty, we will be forever searching. And this is how the world feels like this days – searching desperately and try to create always something new which shall ‘be it’ – but off cause will be never satisfied. There is so much push in us to reach…something that will make us happy. Thereby we disregard who we are and what we have all of the time. So I have a choice: do I any longer search for the right (without any prospect of success) or surrender to the truth?!

310. ‘No alterations of body parts necessary, no special beauty or skin care treatments needed, but with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital’. Same here Adele, taking responsibility is the golden key.

     1. Who would have thought that responsibility makes beautiful or sexy? But it does as it comes with the power and glory shining as beauty. This is truly irresistible.

        1. Beautifully said Alex, yes who would have thought that responsibility actually brings with it freedom to be and live from the beauty that we hold within, yet this is just what happens as we take more responsibility in how we live, hence the natural shining of our beauty and sexiness.

        2. gorgeous Alex and a great reminder that responsibility is not a burden or a task is is allowing all this beauty and power to come into full bloom.

311. We have been sold that beauty lies in our outer appearance only because we have all chosen to move away from the pure divinity and light we were born. It also is a choice to walk back and reconnect to the innocence within. It is this innocence that radiates and shines out into the world. Innocence is truly beautiful.

312. Beauty, like the ageless message behind the words of this blog, can only be received when we connect within ourselves to our truth first. Then we have a marker to say, yes that is beautiful, or no that is not. Then we can be clear that the essence of life and of people is beautiful when they express through the same connection and ugly when they do not. Living life with connection is our only way of truly appreciating how the veil of illusion made up of issues, dilemmas and dramas is actually very thin and can only penetrate or effect that very thin layer, along with those that choose to dwell there. It can never alter the truth and the beauty it unveils.

313. Great blog Adele, beauty really is so much more than the physicality, as it encompasses everything about the way we walk, talk, express and the innermost quality these actions come with. There is so much more to beauty than we think!

     1. Yes, it’s deeper than the just external as it’s all portrayed to be. Beauty starts from within our deep essence which then shines through our every movement, action and choice.

314. I remember a time where I felt anything but beauty and my self esteem was very low. I then lost weight and started to tick more of the ‘beauty’ boxes. I got more compliments on my looks but never truly felt beautiful, not until I connected to who I am inside. I now feel beautiful regardless of my looks even though the beauty is shining through into my outer appearance.

     1. Beautiful, Carolien. I too ticked the outer beauty boxes as a young woman but felt empty and miserable inside. I am only now re-connecting to the true beauty that beams out to the world from my heart.

        1. Interesting is it not Janet, and we can see it, if we look into the eyes of the models and actors that are celebrated for their beauty the disconnection and emptiness is visible. Could it be that we do not want to see this as it confronts us with the hurt of not being connected to our inner beauty ourselves?

     2. Interesting how you say ‘a place that does not feel that good anyway’ as it shows how we only start looking outside of us after we have let go of the connection within. Only then can energies come in that build on top of our innermost and make it seems as this connection is not a great thing to have. To heal therefor, and to return to true beauty, means to let go of those layers we have built on top so we can feel the beauty and yumminess of what we hold within.

     3. Yes Caroline, this is the vast difference between the inner quality of beauty and the outer superficial looks that is portrayed as beauty.

        1. Indeed Christopher and it explains why so many of those we call very beautiful are not feeling this on the inside. The number of models, actress etc who are unhappy with themselves vastly outnumbers those who are,

315. Adele, you blog reveals to me that connection is timeless and age-less. Without it, every new line on the face is a mark of ageing and a rejection of ourselves.

     1. I love what you have said here Matthew – true connection has no age. Anything else is a trick to keep us in the spin of comparison and ‘not good enough’, which is the polar opposite of connection.

     2. Beauty is timeless; it comes from eternity.

316. Yes, there is nothing quite as beautiful as the love of our soul shining out through our eyes.

317. “even though I have what the world judges as physical beauty, I did not feel beautiful at all” This line alone proves that physical beauty is not ‘it’. So many people have the so called physical beauty but still are very perfectionistic, see flaws everywhere etc. I have lived myself like that too almost wearing it as my badge of honour but I have been also deeply inspired by the Livingness of Serge Benhayon to let this go and start to feel the true beauty that is inside and that there is a way of living that nurtures and brings out this inner beauty, which is the most beautiful thing in the world.

     1. To try and have the perfect look is a fools errand, consigning oneself to a lifetime of diets, surgery and being obsessed with one’s appearance. To work on how we feel about ourselves is a lifetime commitment as well, but there is a guarantee of building the appreciation of ourselves that is in no way related to what we do, how we look, how much money we have, how old we are. Its a journey of meaning and enormous joy.

318. When I didn’t take gloves with me on my morning walk, I realize that it is crispy cold and decide to go back to get my gloves. When I don’t brush off the sensation of icy fingertips and care for my body. That’s beauty.

     1. Beauty is in every move we make – if we allow it.

     2. The care you have shown to yourself from feeling your deep preciousness is the movement that will imparted to your relationship with life, self-love is beautiful and the depth of beauty grows into that which no longer has self.

319. Beauty is so much more than an appearance, its a feeling felt when you connect to your or another’s essence

     1. Beautifully said Jo and connecting to this beauty is precious indeed.

320. Well expressed Marika

321. “…true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” When I read this this morning I immediately connected to Natalie Benhayon and replaced the word beauty (although she most certainly is that too) with sexy. True sexy. Natalie is the epitome of this to me. She oozes it, and it is in no shape or form the sleazy artificial sexy we are sold. This comes from within and feels beautiful.

     1. I totally agree, Jenny, Natalie Benhayon is the epitome of true ‘sexy’ – the way she celebrates her relationship with herself and her celebration of the totally awesome, sassy woman that she is, with all the love and joy that she is.

     2. It is fascinating that true sexy, true beauty, true grace and other essential qualities that come from deep within are non-physical as such but an emanation and expression that makes the body glow.

322. Beauty constantly goes deeper with us when we are willing to have a relationship with it, never is there a destination or an ideal picture we can hold onto. I felt the deepest beauty released, something not experienced to this extent before recently, when a new level of abuse that was accepted so innately in the past has been called out and communicated in all angles possible. This deepened the relationship with myself and those in relationship with me, and it was not something easy, but for me that was deeply beautiful.

323. We have been sold a lie and diminished version of what beauty is. I am really grateful for Serge Benhayon and Natalie Benhayon and the reflection of the amazing Universal Medicine student body for showing us all that true beauty is innate in every single person, no matter what we say, do or think. We come from divine beauty and love and everyone gets a choice to accept and live this truth or not.

     1. Yes, Annie, and in spite of our choices, our beauty will always be there, patiently waiting for us to choose to embrace and enjoy it.

324. Beauty is also much more than ‘hair deep’. Even after having the most terrible haircut I ever had I can still see the divine beauty shining out from within me. That beauty can never be destroyed.

     1. Absolutely Jeanette, we women can really get upset when with a ‘bad’ haircut experience, including myself. I had this fairly recently, and noticed that it did not get me emotional as it usually would, mainly because of this foundation of self love and self appreciation that I live daily. And my hair grows really quickly!

        1. I was actually quite upset Jacqueline even though I know my beautiful inner self quite intimately and that is what was surprising. It was a strong process of deepening the foundation of love and appreciation for myself. In the end I had more hair cut off and see the whole experience as a blessing. Each experience offers an opportunity to clear more hurts from our bodies and replace it with love.

     2. This made me smile Jeanette – never heard the expression ‘hair deep’ before, but I know the feeling. Does it lead to a few weeks of feeling bad about yourself, or just a simple reflection to stay more present during the hair cut and express fully with the hair dresser.

        1. Great questions simonwilliams8 – answers yes and yes. It also is a reflection to honour your feelings as I had a sense this hairdresser was not going to listen to me when I said I don’t want short hair ten times, and should have not gone ahead. The learning has been grand though, and that is the main thing for me in all my experiences.

     3. It can be challenging when something is going on that affects our appearance in some way. But this is an offering for us to confirm deeply our inner beauty, for that remains constant whereas our bodies are constantly changing, with ageing, injuries, disease and even bad haircuts.

        1. Yes, true beauty is a timeless presence the body can express when we allow it to be; beauty elevates the mundane by divine presence.

        2. There is nothing more beautiful than the light that shines through our eyes and the love that emanates from our bodies. Nothing!

     4. Yes our true beauty can never be destroyed it will be there with us always. We just need to choose to connect to it.

325. When we connect to the beauty and grace within us, there is nothing more amazing than walking in the magic of this. Nothing out there, no person, no mountain, food or item of clothing can beat the connection to our innate beauty.

326. When we choose to only focus on the outer shell we ignore and devalue the true essence within us all. When we choose to feel that essence within ourselves, we can’t help but see it in everyone else – their true beauty.

327. ‘I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.’ This is awesome, to live with this awareness of how our faces and body language automatically reflect our innermost thoughts as well as what we say.

328. ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made’ – absolutely! Every single person on this planet has masses of beauty inside them, if you can’t feel it there’s a reason why, but it’s never far away.

     1. I agree Meg and Adele. To not feel beautiful is a choice… connect a little deeper and the beauty is all there!

        1. It is as simple as that, just choose to connect allow the expansion within and feel, the beauty is always there, it never leaves us.

        2. It’s crazy we can spend years – if not our whole lives not feeling or knowing we are beautiful, when all you need to d is simply connect and it’s just there.

329. I love the twinkle in people’s eyes and the way they seem to glow when they are genuinely accepting of themselves and their innate beauty. It’s infectious and lovely to be around.

     1. Fiona I will ditto that, that sparkle in the eye is all that is needed to bring a smile to everyones face around.

330. So many women of asked would struggle to find things about themselves they liked, and even few would be able to seriously say they liked all of themselves. Why it it as a society we have become so focused on the physical things that make someone beautiful? Last time I watch the sun set or a flower bloom or dew on leaves, I don’t look for physical imperfection but rather see the larger beauty – and the same needs to be seen of people – there is something so much greater about a person than their physical attributes – who they are and what makes them who they are is infinitely special and beautiful.

     1. Love this, Rebecca … ‘I don’t look for physical imperfection but rather see the larger beauty’, it’s as though we have chosen to walk away from our innate beauty, feeling we don’t stack up against the false images we have been fed on ‘what beauty is’. As you say, looking at the larger picture, embracing what is true, the love that we are, the exquisite scent of our essence – we know this already, but are just choosing to dis-regard the truth in place of a lie, which keeps us from being the fullness of who we are. We are all breathtakingly beautiful but we are the only ones who can realise this beauty by claiming it for ourselves and living it in each and every moment.

        1. I agree Alison – we cannot leave our beauty on the wayside as we search for the beauty we have been told counts in this world. When we claim that beauty it surpasses all the measurements we have.

331. Beauty is most definitely much more than skin deep. It is the innate beauty that we knew ourselves to be, resurfacing to be shared and celebrated once again.

332. ‘when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.’ – Adele what a gorgeous way to look at beauty – that is comes from within outwards. I love what you share here- how you have turned it around to not be how good we can mask up the outside but rather what is the quality we are living that allows us to be naturally beautiful and radiate this?

333. I absolutely feel and know in my heart that we are all deeply beautiful in our essence; I love connecting and talking to that essence in each and every interaction. The joy of engaging in this way is divine; for a moment a person gets to reconnect and feel their true essence and beauty – it opens up opportunities for them to then make choices to develop and unfold this beauty.

334. I heard an advertising executive state on TV, that all make-up and clothes ads were designed to make the consumer feel ugly and they could only attain beauty if they purchased the ad’s product. Many, many areas in society confirms this message that beauty is something physical to be attained from the outside. Thank you Adele for expressing the truth of what true beauty is – our deep essence, who we truly are and the more it is connected to and expressed the more truly beautiful we become.

335. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” Where we find ourselves today in our lives either in good health or ill health, all comes back to the choices we have made and lived. Honesty with ourselves plays a big part in making new lifestyle choices that honour and respect our physical body.

336. Love to come back to this super delightful blog Adele. Like you I have been my own worst critic and very self-judgmental which is a trait many women appear to have. We are so hard on ourselves because we do not live up to the present image of what society portrays as beautiful, and then comes in the jealousy and the comparison and more judging. How we set ourselves up! Once we women accept that beauty is more than skin deep, and we accept and honour ourselves just the way we are, these old images and beliefs that have trapped us for so many long years, begin to fall away.

337. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” Reading these words reminded me of the huge responsibility we all have to live the light of our soul and from shining that light the world gets the opportunity to see exactly what true beauty is; it doesn’t come from a bottle, a dress or a pose, it come from deep within and it is always waiting to be expressed.

338. We have often heard that our true beauty comes from our eyes, as eyes are the windows to our soul. In the city where I live in, women decorate their eyes with contact lens which look like iries. When these contact lens are put on, they make our iries look bigger, darker and hence the eyes will look more powerful and beautiful. We are even putting a veil of protection on our eyes, the place where we can honestly look at how the connection with our soul is.

     1. That’s incredible Adele. At what lengths are people prepared to go to put up the protection, to not see and not be seen?

        1. At all lengths Gina, we will do anything that will delay evolution and not take responsibility, and this is damaging to everyone. It is interesting to be a part of this in feeling the deep emptiness and lack of self worth and how lost we are to not question the extent we go to not know and understand ourselves deeper. We do not like ourselves very much and do not appreciate ourselves enough–and this is hurting everyone. The need to appear physically beautiful comes from the fact that we can feel our deep emptiness but the way we attempt to correct this through our physicality will not lead us back to truth, lovelessness will not lead us back to love.

        2. ‘lovelessness will not lead us back to love’ – I love your comment here Adele. We sign up indeed ‘to not like ourselves very much’: WE choose to do this to ourselves, to believe this about ourselves. A bitter and hard pill to swallow but the sooner we realise society deliberately sets us up in these beliefs, the better.

        3. Dear Gina, it is sad, but true that all around us in society are those living in dis like of themselves. This certainly sets us up to live the same way. Hence, we all have a responsibility to begin the journey of not only liking ourselves, but loving ourselves and feeling the beauty that is felt when this way of living is again made real in our lives.

     2. This is an interesting development, Adele, as up til now we could say that our eyes cannot lie.

     3. People are getting tatoos on their eyes, which I find so hard to comprehend, apart from the pain of having it done, the hurt felt to choose to walk so far away from the love that they are must be enormous.

339. Beauty is not a priviledge, it is a responsibility to express that which we all are and is simply natural.

     1. This is huge – if we take that responsibility to truly reflect how we are living, and not hide it. Its very magnetic and inspiring.

     2. Beautifully said Adele – we are not the lucky ones blessed with beauty for each of us have the responsibility for connecting to the truth of beauty within and express that for all. We all know what true beauty is as it’s living inside our inner-hearts and always has, the responsibility here is having a relationship with that quality.

        1. Move in the quality of equality where comparison does not enter and responsibility is all there is, that just feels joyful Rachael.

340. We are sold through images what beauty is, very much focused on the outer physical aspects of us. This is a consciousness that is very ingrained in how the world now operates. The focus on celebrities, social media, proliferation of reality tv, all of which is sensationalising beauty being skin deep and mostly about looks. This couldn’t be further from the truth, connecting to the wisdom and essence within us is more than we could ever wish for. In fact it is what we wish for, a love that knows no bounds, never to be sought outside of us.

341. I was at an event with over 360 people in attendance and was struck by the beauty emanating from each and every person. Although our appearance may differ the beauty within is the same in quality.

342. “To me, every single person in this world is beautiful. We are all equally beautiful in our essence, and we can all choose to be aware of how this fact is expressed in our physical presence when we are not limited by the definition of what physical beauty is.” I absolutely agree with you Adele, thank you for a beautiful article here. I too know that every one of us is equally beautiful in our essence, just gaze into the eyes of another, and that beauty shines through, even through the sadness, loneliness, etc. that we may also see in their eyes. It is up to us to live that true beauty that we are, it all depends then on our choices in life.

343. ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.’ I know this feeling of ‘not beautiful’ that comes over me when I’m out of sorts with myself and the world, and is reflected in the quality of my physical appearance. Beauty is a choice. How freeing is that!

344. We are ALL responsible for connecting to The QUALITY of True Beauty that is within every one of us.

     1. Absolutely Kathryn, connecting and moving in that quality, as those movements will then confirm our divinity. The more you move in that quality, the more you do not want to subject the body to anything less because you feel how precious it truly is.

     2. ‘We are ALL responsible for connecting to The QUALITY of True Beauty that is within every one of us’ …. absolutely, Kathryn and the more we are all choosing to do this, the stronger the pull will be for others to reconnect to the knowingness that it is also their choice and responsibility to do so also, for themselves and for everyone else, equally.

345. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.”- so true Adele. Through the quality of our movements we either connect to the divine energy or not, This then determines what we choose to eat, how we communicate to each other, and what we will choose to do to fill our day, which will determine how we sleep and how we feel in the morning.

346. When we connect to who we are in essence, we know who we all are in essence, and this quality lived is a true reflection of our Divinity, our universality, the immeasurable Heavenly beauty that we all innately are.

347. A very gorgeous presentation Adele. True beauty is a quality that cannot be not measured by looks, clothes, make-up or any physicality. The quality of beauty comes from our connection to our essence within. From this connection the grandness of our beauty within, in truth, is impossible to contain and shines through our every cell, emanating through all we do.

348. ” I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy”

     This feels like a recipe for achieving true beauty, from the inside out, Adele. I would love to see this in all the women’s magazines!

349. True beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically. This line is so true Adele,our true beauty comes from our loving hearts and our own unique divine essence and shines out from our eyes and our whole body. That’s the kind of true beauty you see and feel.

     1. Yes, Julie, there is nothing more beautiful than a loving heart.

350. ‘Everything we see on the surface reflects the responsibility we have taken, in expressing the true quality that is within us all equally.’
     Brilliant.

351. All the points you have asked yourself are like moments of markers in your body because you know the gorgeous feeling in your body when you act like this. These are moments like taking a warm bath and in those moments we can feel the love so intense that it is crazy that we leave them again.

352. “. . . when we hold onto the recognition of only our physicality, we are limiting ourselves to truly live our beauty in essence.” Imagine if we all would choose to live our beauty in essence – the fashion and beauty industry would not exists in the way it exists right now.

     1. “Imagine if we all would choose to live our beauty in essence” – Instead of the pressure we see and get in and through the beauty-industry we would feel a pull towards our future, which is in fact back to where we are coming from= Unity. We would live in full responsibility and this would discover our true beauty more and more by every choice we made.

     2. What a wonderful possibility to ponder and bring to fruition! Does that mean that the fashion industry as it is merely a reflection of how self-rejecting we have become, and how far away from our truth that we are living?

353. Adele the questions you asked yourself are very powerful and helpful. This following question made me really ponder: “Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?” I never thought about this but I can feel that this is really worth to start to express it as well – Thank you for shining your light and beauty.

     1. This is a great point Ester, as we often only consider that beauty is how someone looks according to the pictures and beliefs we follow. Yet there is so much more to consider as it is in the quality of our movements that brings us to any point and if those moments are absent of our Love, our essence then what are we left with? If we are in connection to who we are in essence our movements then are a reflection of the quality of Love that we are connected to through which beauty can only then naturally radiate.

354. “Beauty is much more than skin deep.” Ahaha Adele this expression is a very good slogan for every person to remember.

355. Beautiful Adele that is an other amazing blog from you. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” Yes indeed and I am wondering why we do not learn it from our mothers???? How could it be that most of us chose this disharmony????

     1. This disharmony is chosen from our movement to move away from God.

        1. Such powerful truth delivered in that one line Adele which supports me to bring more presence to my every move….

356. True beauty is reflected back by the light that resides within. It is not something for sale, you can’t bottle it and no one can give it to us. It only comes from living the grace and the love that we are and not holding it back.

     1. Absolutely Donna, beautifully said. True beauty is a reflection of knowing and living our connection to the Light we all are within. The opportunity to surrender to all that we are is one that always remains. It is only us that measures our ever-present innate Divine beauty.

357. We can look at each others’ faces and read how we have been living – some have been ‘ravaged by time’, some look younger than their age – there is no need for plastic surgery – what we show on our faces is who we are – the depth of beauty is there to be seen by anybody who is willing to look deeper.

358. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.”
     Am I… “Holding myself always in appreciation and understanding”? I am beginning to allow myself to understand and hold myself in compassion as I unfold back to my Soul’s ways… I have always struggled with loving myself when I don’t feel beautiful in my body from a choice of food I have eaten that makes me feel dull and heavy. I am learning about the beholding light and love in me, that “allows myself and life to unfold in the deepest acceptance”.

     Thank you Adele, your words help me arise out of the narrow understanding and picture of what beauty and love are.

359. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us.” True Adele it is a choice, and our wrinkles show whether we have had a life of laughter or frowns. It doesn’t matter what age we are, our inner beauty can shine through so long as we do not block it by comparing ourselves with others or judging ourselves as not good enough.

     1. I so agree, there can be a vitality that shines throughout the ages. I know women of all ages and some women who are much older who love and connect with themselves in such a way, that their wisdom, elder energy just beams out, their true sexiness that comes from a deep connection with themselves shines through, it is truly amazing to feel.

360. Adele, it is wonderful that you can support people in their understanding and expression of true beauty. I was watching a photo shoot of some older women and the photographer was asking them to connect with themselves and smile from that inner connection and immediately a youthful glow lit up their faces and an ageless beauty shone through their eyes and skin. The transformation was amazing and it was so obvious that true beauty comes from within.

361. Agreed, Adele. This has also been my experience. What physical beauty is varies between people and is all based on our perceptions and the images we construct along the way of what beauty is.

     But when someone connects to their true essence and allows this to be seen and expressed, their body is transformed and you cannot help but see that they are beautiful.

362. Thank you, Adele. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us.” This offers a stop moment every day to check in with ourselves and make sure our beauty is being shared with the world.

363. “Everything we see on the surface reflects the responsibility we have taken, in expressing the true quality that is within us all equally.” So true Adele what we see on the outside our complexion our eyes our smile are all a reflection of what we are feeling inside. When we express from truth there is a sparkle and radiance that can be seen and felt, it is something that is naturally there, no force or pretence needed.

364. There is indeed a natural harmony in our body. That is something I felt deeply recently. With that it showed me that any disharmony in my body is in fact me not choosing or better said letting the harmony flow within me. What ever is going on around me, I have a responsibility to stick to this harmony from which my true beauty emanates.

365. all the attention, ideals and beliefs that we have allowed about what beauty is, and the fact that we keep adjusting this over time, show how we use our outer appearance to avoid having to feel that true beauty is about our inner connection to who we truly are. It seems to have become a deflection rather then a reflection.

366. “what I have discovered is, true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” What an absolutely liberating discovery Adele and how amazing to be working with models and in the fashion industry with this knowing.

     1. Yes, Adele is in a great position to ignite the true beauty of the models she works with by connecting to them in their essence.

     2. Rosanna it does bring back simplicity and deep joy. How amazing for the models also to be working within this beholding equality that comes through.

367. To appreciate who we are and what we bring has a power that is not yet understood – or is it and that is why it is avoided? Ha! Ouch.

     1. Through a deep ill pride we avoid the pain of acknowledging that we have been on a false journey through the years of our own choosing in full knowledge of it being so and the arrogance of turning away from the truth we’ve known.

        1. And the moment we say YES to our power we are on full responsibility – also to return to where we are coming from, what includes to embrace our unity and give up on individuality….If our beauty comes from within it comes from our connection to a higher source and so our beauty is not ‘ours’ – we just let shine though where we are coming from (and return to).

     2. ‘To appreciate who we are and what we bring has a power that is not yet understood ‘ … maybe it is understood, but we allow ourselves to avoid it to keep our individuality, to stay apart. Once we allow ourselves to accept how we are all connected and part of the whole, equally so, there is no going back. We have a responsibility to take our part, to support each other, to not do so affects everyone, equally so.

368. true beauty is in the quality that we live. We can feel this first and foremost and then see it in the way the body is, how it is held, the quality of the movements, the openness of the face etc.

     1. Yes, true beauty is in the quality that we live first and foremost. In the living of this beauty, it is then reflected in our eyes, in our bodies, in every movement.

        1. Yes I agree. Without surrendering to our connection to our essence we cannot live in a quality that honors who we are as all that we choose is reflected though our movements.

        2. Beautifully said Carola – and I love how it is about simply surrendering to what is already there – nothing to “do” or strive for.

369. It is so much more than ‘telling’ ourselves we are beautiful. Unless it is felt from within it has no substance, it is a thought, mere words, there to be blown away with the next gust of wind.

370. Adele I love how you write that true beauty can only be realized when everyone “celebrates their own innate beauty with everyone else” – it is not enough for us to know and connect to our own beauty, if we do not share it with others, we are stifling its natural flow and expression and the world is less because of this. We have no problem sharing our beauty when we do not attach to it as being “ours” but something that belongs equally to all – who are we to hold this back?

371. If one truly allows themselves to look deeply into the eyes of another, they will see a timeless beauty there beyond compare. It is for the most part, however, a beauty that humanity hides from each other, settling instead for the empty facade of what lies on the surface.

     1. If we hide each others beauty and so our own, we don’t have to honor or care about it. It is just a way to avoid responsibility.

     2. The eyes are the windows to our soul. Why do people wear sunglasses when not needed? Could it be the same fallacy that if I shut my eyes, you can’t see or hurt me? Hiding by sticking one’s head in the sand comes to mind.

     3. Why would we hide this beauty from each other and settle for something that can never compare? Surely we would not choose this of our own free will? Are we just blinded to what is really going on, not allowing the awareness to realise how many false ‘pictures’ we’ve been given and are still being fed each and every day?

     4. As gorgeous as ever Adam. Its why for the most part people can’t even look each other in the eye.

372. We are changing the world with every our every breath and movement back to truth.

373. Beauty that comes from within is a movement of quality that naturally beautifies our outside.

     1. Ahhh Adele, the movement you have encapsulated in your words is a reflection of true beauty – thank you!

     2. Yes, and there is something transcendent about true beauty emanating from the inside. When you are met with another person’s true beauty, emanating from within, you are shown that there is something more and grander than what we can see with our eyes alone and also that this lives equally within you too.

        1. Beautifully said, Kate, being met by another, we’re confirmed in our ‘equalness’, allowing ourselves to appreciate their beauty also confirms to us that this ‘lives equally within us too’.

     3. I love this, Adele. Beautiful movements are not simply mechanical motions of our limbs, they are filled with the quality of connection to ourselves, which expands to every part of us from within.

     4. Spot on Adele, it is our movements that reflect the grace and beauty within us all.

374. This Adele is completely true ‘No alterations of body parts necessary, no special beauty or skin care treatments needed, but with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital.’ Us choosing our inner beauty and quality to move and express will cost nothing or needs no outer additions. It’s well and truly worth being with ourselves and expressing from within.

     1. Well said Johanna. Letting go of hardness and protection and embracing our natural beauty doesn’t cost a thing – everything is all already available to us, we just have to take responsibility of ourselves, look after our bodies in full and not be afraid to stand out and shine.

     2. The True Beauty that is reflected to us by both Men and Women when radiating from their essence melts me. It is so so lovely to be around somebody who’s in his or her presence. Offering a reflection that I am that Beauty too! And indeed, it’s got nothing to do with clothes and make-up, although I found myself dressing much more loving than I ever did in the past! Quite obvious as the self-care increased, naturally what I choose to wear, also changed.

        1. Love what you share here, Floris, I have found my wardrobe has so much more colour since I started loving and appreciating myself more! I used to wear mainly dark colours, to blend in and hide, now I have almost all the colours of the rainbow and just love bringing me to the world, no more hiding.

        2. I can feel the Joy in your comment Alison! It makes me smile. I can feel how lovely it is to be confirmed. Especially unexpectedly. It’s such a gift. Two different people, two genders, two countries, two different experiences, yet feeling the Joy of dressing very differently, just by allowing ourselves more Loving movements.

        3. I agree, Floris, it shows the power of true connection, when we’re feeling what another is expressing from their heart, with our heart, we don’t kneed to be physically in the presence of another, it is indeed very beautiful to give and to receive, equally so.

        4. Sometimes it is even easier for me to connect on distance than in real life. Somehow energy and the body have become two different subjects, items, rather than them being one and the same. In the sense that our bodies are made from energy and express energy all of the time. Somehow I’m getting distracted much faster when there’s physical closeness. But in both cases it’s so True that feeling with our heart what people say and share, is so lovely to connect to. What on the surface might come across as shallow, is from the Heart’s connection very Wise, Joyful or whatsoever. It’s up to us to take a moment to connect to each other, or to close off.

375. Beauty is the radiance of the love we hold for ourselves and choose to reflect this to everyone equally. This beauty is absolutely gorgeous as it includes the light of the divine we are from. This is true beauty.

376. What I love about your work Adele, is the way you work with the whole person, allowing their innate beauty to emanate – it shows in all your pictures – the natural grace of a woman, the tenderness of a man, not to mention the amazing fun you all seem to have in the making of the pictures.You are an inspiration for all of us.

     1. Yes, Carmel. The beauty and entertainment industries take bodies apart and glorify the beauty of individual parts. Adele recognises and appreciates the beauty of the whole and is able then bring this out in her work for others to discover and appreciate.

377. Judgement limits us when we see beauty as an outer expression of how we look. I was very much brought up with intense judgement of others in how they looked and how they measured up to a certain level of beauty – and this one thing was limiting the whole value of a person. The quality that a person brought into the world was totally disregarded. It feels so freeing to have let go of this perception of life and to be able to feel the whole beauty that is offered when a person is expressing from their inner heart with a fullness, openness and warmth and how beautiful this is when it shines through to be shared with the world.

     1. Yes Susan, it is so diminishing to equate someone’s worth with the measure of their external beauty – what an absolute farce!! Yet we have allowed this crazy notion to encroach on our lives in so many ways.

        1. I agree, Hannah, yet if there were 10 people standing at a counter all waiting to be served and one stood out for their ‘external beauty’, ticking all the boxes, I wonder who would be the first to be served …. it shouldn’t make any difference at all, yet by accepting the pictures we’ve been bombarded with, it has made a difference … time to shred those pictures!

     2. It is impossible to not see beauty in a person who is truly expressing from the light within. Beauty is felt rather than just received by the eyes. I find the images of what is beautiful are often vacuous and devoid of any feeling of beauty.

        1. Absolutely agree with you hartanne60 – “Beauty is felt” before it is “received by the eyes”.

        2. I couldn’t agree more, hartanne60, a lot of images that are purported to be ‘beauti-full’ are not even true, they are altered and touched up to meet a formula. They are empty and cold, I am not drawn to them at all, whereas true beauty is positively magnetic, as you say, it’s felt first, it’s as though we feel the connection to God and we are impulsed to connect to, knowing we are a part of the whole.

378. I have come across the statement that ‘everyone is beautiful’ many times when I was pursuing New Age teachings. It was always in a sentimental manner communicated in a soft wispy voice. It has not been until meeting Serge Benhayon and studying with Universal Medicine that this has become a fact. The more I learn to appreciate and honour myself, the more I see the same splendour in others – that at our essence we are all connected, we are love, we are divine and in fact we are every one of us Sons of God – now how can that not be beautiful?

379. I have seen the radiation of true beauty when individuals say yes to self love and responsibility- there eyes sparkle with a lived joy and power.

     1. Nicole what you share here, the sparkle in the eye of those choosing love is always inspiring, looking into the eyes of someone who lives their life with that joy and power brings everything to a stop and time feels endless. It melts away any issue or problem. No one is excluded and its possible for anyone to live this way.

        1. Beautifully written David – and it is there equally for all.

     2. And they ask nothing to tell them they are beautiful, they already know it to be true.

        1. Well said, Heather, when we claim our inner beauty, no validation is sought or needed, we already know how beautiful we are.

        2. So true Heather – and the depth of the beauty is down to every cell in their bodies, such grace.

     3. Yes, they do, Nicole, it’s totally magnetic, as I allow myself to appreciate their beauty, my whole body confirms to me that I can do the same, if I so choose.

     4. Yes Marika, it is a blessing.

     5. Yes, Nicole it is indisputably obvious and a true joy to feel when someone chooses self-love and responsibility in their lives and lives with the knowingness that those qualities are to be cherished and expressed for all to feel that there is another way to embrace beauty.

380. ‘What I have realized now is that I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me. Beauty is much more than skin deep.’ So true Adele.

     1. And it is a responsibility for us and for all that provides a true reflection and inspiration.

        1. Therefore all the hours of angst many of us have spent obsessing over our physical appearance is really self-indulgence.

     2. Yes Jenny, and maybe that is why we prefer to externalise beauty, rather than accept the true beauty we have within for in accepting our beauty, we then have a responsibility to live it and share it – it becomes about everyone rather than our individual issues.

381. As I was reading your blog Adele, I could feel how irresistible your deep appreciation of true beauty would be and how clients would be unable to leave not bathing in their own beauty. This is such a gift, to be able to support people to let go of their ideas about how they need to look and appreciate the unique beauty they have within.

     1. Yes I agree Fiona, Adele’s deep appreciation for true beauty is the blessing that client’s would receive upon connecting with her and forever more. All the ‘images’ would simply fall away.

     2. So true Fiona, I felt this also. What a healing session it would be standing in front of a camera with Adele directing and offering guidance in unlocking the magic of true beauty expressed from within. I love that, bathing in their own beauty, it’s such a gorgeous gift to give people Adele.

     3. ‘This is such a gift, to be able to support people to let go of their ideas about how they need to look and appreciate the unique beauty they have within.’ …. I agree, Fiona, such a gift to allow people to feel how exquisitely beautiful they already are and to let go of the false ideals and beliefs that are only holding them back from appreciating this truth and embracing it with all the love that they are.

     4. True Fiona, it is an absolute gift to support others to let go of their ideas of beauty as being defined by our physical appearance and instead connect to the unique beauty we each naturally are.

     5. Agreed Fiona, it is such a great opportunity to feel the power and responsibility of our reflection when we choose to be the love that we are.

382. I just felt that by not appreciating our own beauty we are denying our divinity. To do so is totally negating of all that we are.

     1. Very true, Rosanna, it’s also negating of all that everyone else is too. If we choose not to take full responsibility for the way that we are living, we are choosing not to share all of our divinity and therefore, we are opting to be less when we can be so much more and in turn, inspire others to do the same.

383. A wonderful blog Adele. True beauty most definitely comes from within and our connection to that beauty and Love allows us to glow and as you say “there are no images in what true beauty is” and likewise love.

384. Thank you Adele. A massive majority, nearly all?, of the world has sold out to the outer appearances. Yet when we let our beauty that is inside to shine out, it moves mountains and often stops me in my tracks. I have the pleasure of knowing many people who deeply care and nurture themselves- and they radiate. Nothing can compare to the beauty that is within. Which, when allowed, transcends to the beauty of what others see on the outside too.

     1. I agree Emily. Appreciating and looking after yourself really shows, and people who do this really do ‘radiate’ and are very beautiful in their way of being because of how they hold themselves.

        1. There is an ease in ourselves when we know we are loved (by ourselves), and that ease radiates.

        2. I totally agree, Susie, they not only radiate their beauty, they invite everyone around them to do the same, we recognise truth when we feel it and we can instantly feel and know that we can do this too, so it inspires us to do exactly that.

        3. Susie absolutely it is felt so quickly when women are looking after themselves as they radiate that beauty, which is so beautiful to feel. Natalie Benhayon, Sara Williams and Simone Benhayon are amazing role models of this.

        4. Spot on Susie. I would like to add Kylie Jackson to that list of women who radiate deep loving care and and consistent self honouring. They literally emanate divinity.

        5. It reminds me of how i can be also. and how naturally my body wants to surrender to what they allow of themselves – love.

        6. Surrender is the movement towards feeling deeper beauty.

     2. Emily, I have noticed this too, ‘I have the pleasure of knowing many people who deeply care and nurture themselves- and they radiate’, it is the people that look after themselves – care about themselves, do not push their bodies, but who are gentle and tender with themselves that look amazing, they shine brightly, I notice that people that I know who do not look after themselves often look tired, unwell and do not have the same playfulness, vitality, joy and wellness.

     3. I remember living with a ‘beautiful’ woman, her physical appearance was what we would term stunning, but as I got to know her the less attractive she was, to the point that when I introduced her to a friend at a party they were blown away by her appearance and I literally could not see what they were talking about she had become ugly to me because of how she treated others and herself. It is amazing how much we override what we feel for what the eyes chose to see.

        1. I agree, we often let ourselves be guided by what we see with our eyes, but have a closed heart in this moment.

        2. yes, we try to switch off what we feel, often to not feel the ugliness. and we often condition what we see based on our own perception and emotions.

385. Adele this feels so lovely and freeing to read and know, I love it .”True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” Simply Beautiful thank you.

     1. What a gift for the girl you met, Rebecca, to have spent time chatting with you, leaving her with a marker of what it feels like to be seen for who you are, not how you look.

386. Perhaps in focusing on the external beauty we are missing out on or holding back from going to where a true form of beauty lies – one that everyone has and can feel in others

     1. This was the stand out realisation for me reading this Rebecca, that we deny our beauty by investing in a much more superficial form of it.

        1. Indeed we do – ‘beauty is only skin deep’ is the biggest lie we are sold and accept – but do we accept it because its easier that way – to judge and be judged on the outside appearance, rather than cherished for the beauty within?

        2. Yes Abby – most are investing in this superficial form to fit in – I was the same as I did not know better. I am glad that I could connect back to my inner beauty through people who showed me that there is more inside of me – they were such an inspirational role model for me.

        3. Well said Abby. And we can spend a fortune on that investment rather than appreciating and honouring that which is freely available.

        4. Esther – I think you raise a very valuable point there about how supportive it can be to have the reflection of people around you who are truly accepting themselves, their worth and their beauty and how inspiring that expression can be to help another re-ignite that connection within themselves.

     2. Yes we can feel this all of the time so we are kind of fooling ourselves by investing in the outer.

        1. Even if we don’t buy into the whole ‘fashion/beauty’ industry and we know that true beauty comes from within, it’s hard to not be at all affected by the constant unspoken judgment and comparison that goes on and will continue to do so until we’ve completely discarded our ideals and beliefs around beauty.

        2. I have only ever been to one fashion show, pretty low key but I did recognise one of the models. The thing that struck me the most was how incredibly miserable everyone looked. There must be an unwritten rule that models can’t smile or show any joy at all …. it was actually very sad to witness how harshly everyone was walking, if you can call it that, their gait was so strange I was quite transfixed and ended up paying no attention to the clothes at all!

     3. It’s like the idea and obsession of outer beauty is the massive distraction society uses to keep at bay the pulsing ever present flame of absolute exquisiteness within. We have invested so much on the outside, on looks, achievement, success and attention for what we do – all the while missing the point BIG TIME that our true light and gorgeousness is always within.

        1. The thing is, when there is no lived connection to the inner heart, the ‘outer shell’ will always be, just that, a shell. True beauty is a lived vibrancy that radiates from a person, as though the body is just singing with joy.

        2. So true Rachel, there are so many people, judged to be pretty or not based on physical traits, who are truly beautiful on the inside and are never appreciated for that.

        3. Exactly Alison – when beauty is reduced to the surface it feels empty, sure it can appease our eyes but we know something is missing. Emanation from within… now that’s true beauty!

     4. So true Rebecca, we can all feel another’s inner beauty all the time!

     5. Absolutely Rebecca, in externalising beauty, we separate ourselves from the fact that we are indeed all innately beautiful.

        1. I agree, we have lost touch with the part of all of us that is beautiful all day everyday, and we are really missing out because of it

     6. When we connect to the beauty within us, we can feel the beauty in others, it is very obvious when one is only caught in the external beauty as that is felt too.

        1. I agree – and also external beauty can be used as a shield by those who were never seen or met for the beauty inside them, and so you do all you can to fit the ideal of beauty and get recognised for it. I met a girl recently who was very pretty, but was wearing so much makeup, with the strong contouring and big lips and false eyelashes and loads of eyeliner, looking like the Kardashians you see on instagram, and in the conversation she spoke about not being intelligent, not knowing things and not being seen by her family to be able to do anything of value – and so she put all her energy into how she looked, to be recognised that way, even though she was very smart.

        2. When someone is only seeing me externally, not connecting to what lies within me, it feels like I’m being objectified; it’s not a pleasant feeling, there is no connection, rather a sense of being ‘appraised’, or judged even.

        3. Agree Amita, connecting and appreciating to our own beauty allows us to see and recognise beauty in others and this might just be qualities that we normally wouldn’t consider important such as the way someone moves, their willingness to let others in or the level of care they choose in their lives.

     7. Knowing that is within us all yet we often don’t allow ourselves to feel this.

     8. Good point Rebecca – by focusing and engage ourself with the outside we can avoid feeling the inside….makes me curious what is going on in there 😉

387. “with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital” – so true, I can relate to this. And with more lived self-responsibility my body care did rise. I do not use less ‘beauty-products’ – but I use them with some other intent behind it: to celebrate myself.

     1. Gorgeous Sandra enhancing what is already there rather than seeing we need to fix or change something about ourselves to be beautiful.

        1. This approach gives you something you can trust for the start – the fact that you are already beautiful. From this perspective it is much easier to see and deal with anything that gets in the way of is letting our beauty be seen.

     2. Beautiful Sandra. What you say here is key “I do not use less ‘beauty-products’ – but I use them with some other intent behind it: to celebrate myself.” And this is what makes the difference. When we learn to appreciate deeply who we are, we can not only see our own beauty change before our eyes, but we can see it in others too. And with this level of self responsibility we are a true reflection for others to also see it in themselves.

     3. Love that Sandra – that the greater care you take is not necessarily about how much or what products you use but How you use them 🙂

        1. Exactly …. it’s about the quality of our care for ourselves, using our beautiful creams and lotions to nurture and treasure our selves, rather than hoping for a miraculous change. The magic naturally happens as a result of our love, for our selves.

        2. This is so relevant and something that is very important to know, as so many of us think that we need to find the right products and although this is also important the way we use our products makes to bigger difference. Celebration ourselves on a regular basis is a joy and something for us all to reconnect to.

        3. Yes Fiona and Alison – we are magic and with our acceptance, appreciation and care it will come out and will be seen.

        4. great point, when we allow ourselves to feel the products that our body responds well to and feels supported by as opposed to what we from an ideal want to change or better in our appearance we are opening the door to using products that nurture, confirm and celebrate the beauty we hold within.

        5. and again it will come back to quality, the quality of the relationship with ourselves when we choose these products, the quality of touch when we apply them and the connection to the inner beauty allowing it to be seen by all.

     4. Yes I realise through your comment Jade, that I don’t use beauty products to change the way I look anymore. I once used to spend a lot of money and time on products/treatments. I’ve discovered the way we live is the real beauty treatment.

     5. Yes sandra schneider I feel the same. The colours are what brings the beauty we know is true out for all to see.

     6. Sandra this is really gorgeous. Choosing products you feel support you to celebrate who you are.This is the polar opposite of using products in the hope they’ll be the magic ingredient to being beautiful – a beauty that evades us if we believe it has to conform to certain ideals outside of us and our making. Your way confirms the beauty within us all, the other way hides it under layers of not being good enough.

388. Yes there is a big industry making money with the idea of an outer image that is to reached. They support it. But where does it come from? Seems like we are fed with outer images to reach all our life – and we swallow this. The moment we choose to embrace our true beauty that comes from within, is the moment we can use this products lovingly in our way and so, change this industry instead of fighting it.

389. As I am working in the ‘Beauty Industry’ I can share that I love to use (for myself and also in supporting others) products to celebrate beauty. Is it not ‘the way’ we use things which is important, the intent behind it. I can use beauty-products like make-up to cover myself and hide, try to follow an outer image or I can use it to express and celebrate my beauty that comes from an inner connection. The quality what lies behind our expression/action counts.

390. Since I study with Universal Medicine the quality I express and how I look changed a lot (see my ‘before & after’ on UnimedLiving.com: http://bit.ly/1ByWlIT). And I saw and see so many people changing enormously. It seams to me that the Beauty that lies in everyone the same becomes visible and on top the people look younger with every year. Yes, beauty lies inside us all and the way we live makes it shine through.

     1. I agree, Sandra, the more we choose to care for ourselves and live from the love that we are, we become ‘unmasked’ revealing our inner beauty for all to see. Someone recently commented on my wedding photo claiming that I look ‘better’ now than I did 24 years ago! Confirmation indeed that the loving choices I have been making of the last few years are physically shown in my body.

        1. Gosh I love confirmations like this – Well done (lived) Alison!
           Everyone who reconcile this with you should study you, or?!

        2. This is beautiful Alision, there is no doubt that with loving choices we can change how we feel and look, there are many who have chosen to make theses loving choices, including myself. I feel and look much younger than I am, not only a external level but internally within my body too.

        3. Alison that is a great confirmation how we live is the best beauty and ‘anti-ageing’ treatment there is. I too feel younger, healthier, more vital than ever. Recently my GP asked what’s the secret of my youthful skin. This change has resulted from the loving care I now give myself, not from any special lotions or potions.

     2. It is as if we were only just realizing how false the actually lived picture of growing old is.

        1. Yesterday on a training from a cosmetic-brand they showed a picture of a baby and said, from here on we are growing old…and yes we have a few good years (till 25) where our cells divide and reproduce very well. It is a time where we get away with living in a tired out way, party and do not care. But then…we will age and every year we will have less vitality (in the skin) and our tissue will go its way down to earth. It is natural that our facial expression become more grumpy by aging, they say, because our tissues are falling. – And I know this knowledge from school lessons, but since I study with Universal Medicine I make such different experiences and discoveries… I see people looking younger every year, they shine more out their skin and look not just kindly but joyful in a inspiring way.
           So I agree deeply Felix: we have an idea of how ‘growing old’ is and even have since which proof this – but there is another way and this is to discover.

        2. we have an image of growing old that is based on lives lived in disregard and disconnection. The choices we make show in and on our body always,one way or the other. Having a large group of people now making vastly different and more loving choices is showing a whole new picture of how we can grow old in this life.

        3. Absolutely Sandra that is my experience also, people getting younger and younger every year, it is staggering as it is so against the ‘normal’ trend to ageing and fighting that ageing with chemicals or facelifts, turns out being connected to your inner heart lifts your face for free and no animals were tested on!

        4. True Felix – we have become complacent with images and ideals about slowing down, aging and general decline or decay of our physical body when this need not be the case and is at odds with the true graceful process of ageing which can be one of deepening our love, true vitality and surrender.

     3. I agree Sandra, I love returning to the Universal Medicine courses each year, because every year everyone gets lighter, brighter and more beautiful, as we are empowered to heal and release all the beliefs and ideals that covered up our divinity. The Way of the Livingness is just that, a way to reconnect to our vitality, vibrancy and joy, our true beauty that lies within us all.

        1. It is true, we all can dis-cover our divinity.

        2. Rowena yes its beautiful how we are all evolving all the time, and when we meet its an inspiration for us all, that the loving choices we are making should never stop but keep going deeper as there is no end.

        3. Yes, Rowena, I have noticed how much people have changed, especially when I re-meet people a couple of years after the previous encounter. At times, at a gathering I may look around to find old friends, and can become quite confused, people have changed so much at times, looking even more connected and relaxed in themselves, they have become so much lighter and more joyful, I take quite a time to recognise people. It is wonderful to see the huge changes that have taken place.

        4. Absolute gold in your observation Rowena. I just this week attended a Universal Medicine Course where during the last night’s celebration students dance, and totally ‘strut’ their stuff down an ‘aisle’ to music. Watching many of the people who I saw do exactly the same at last year’s celebration, dancing away, celebrating themselves, was absolute confirmation they were brighter, more vital and more beautiful than the previous year. Connecting to their inner beauty and expressing it shone out through their bodies in a joy I have never witnessed before. It was true beauty and truly glorious.

        5. Yes I see so much beauty in the Universal Medicine student body. There is a vitality and freedom in their faces and bodies. Women in their 60s who look more Amazing than ever. I see them and I don’t fear ageing so much.

        6. Rowena this is just beautiful, as the norm for most of us everyday is seeing ourselves and everyone else getting older, more exhausted and more heavy, and that has been accepted as the only way in life, but life is so much more than that and through The Way Of The Livingness, our bodies tell us there is another way, a way which everyone can choose too.

     4. Same here Sandra, I feel younger at 70 than I did at 40 and I know other women who have such a youthful vibrancy about them even in their eighties. There is no magic potion or miracle cream – it is the way we live that allows our light to shine through our eyes and our skin.

        1. Sandra I look, and feel younger in my 40s than I did in my 30’s. Definitetly it is the way we live that makes a difference and allows the light to shine through.

        2. It is in fact no cream or so but taking back responsibility about our life and choices. So – taking responsibility show/reveal our beauty. What a r-evolution!

        3. What a shake up for the beauty industry, that beauty comes as a result of our living way and not anything outside us.

        4. If I worked in advertising Sandra, you would be my spokesperson for a beauty ad campaign.

     5. The freedom from pictures whether it is of beauty, of aging, of youth, of being a woman, of being a man frees us to live the truth from our hearts, which is love. A body that shows what love looks like is much truer than the word ever spoken if it is not first lived.

        1. So true, Adele …. once we free ourselves of the restrictive pictures and ideals that we’ve been fed throughout our lives, we are left unencumbered, with the love that we are, to shine our divine light, beacons of true love.

        2. Yes Adele, there is something truly beautiful about someone living free of images about what it needs to look like and who are accepting of knowing that true beauty is within and expressed through our movements in life.

        3. A life devoted to living free of images, that already sounds like fun but in truth also evolutionary Francisco.

     6. I so agree with you Sandra, I have seen so many people who have changed enormously through living The Way of The Livingness as introduced to us through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. So many have turned their lives around from quite awful situations. And absolutely, “beauty lies inside us all and the way we live makes it shine through”. We all have that beautiful essence within us, it is up to us to choose to live that to let it shine through us. And how wonderful it is for others to see that and know what is possible for us all equally.

        1. “And how wonderful it is for others to see that and know what is possible for us all equally.” – True! The same essence lies in all of us and so, to connect with it and let it shine through does connect us all as well.

     7. I am always amazed by these before and after photos as it isn’t just about weight loss, but there is a quality that is seen and felt in these photos that speak volumes about the choices that people are making – complete transformations and walking ‘miracles’. Our body is a marker of our lived truth.

        1. Sometimes we see this pictures of ‘before and after’ from diet-providers and it is impressive. But what I see around me are people who are trying to just change their diet and at the end they get thrown back into to their old weight or amass even more. Food is either our enemy nor saver – it just supports our choices.

     8. The more and more people let go of the weight they have been carrying on their shoulders the lighter and more beautiful they allow themselves to be.

        1. Taking responsibility is so much lighter than the weightiness of fighting against it.

        2. Beautifully said, Sandra. Responsibility actually lifts us up, it does not tie us down.

        3. I agree that there is a depth of beauty and stillness that cannot be denied when we surrender to the Love we are and connect to God.

        4. Surrendering to the love and beauty we are is a simple choice. It may elude us sometimes, just because of its simplicity, but to do so is to embrace and be embraced by the divine at one and the same time.

     9. I love how you say this Sandra – “Yes, beauty lies inside us all and the way we live makes it shine through.” And your ‘Before & After’ on Unimed Living is incredible and super inspiring!

        1. Thank you Fiona – I am one of hundreds of living proofs that ‘The Livingness’ is the way that discovers our beauty.

391. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.”
     I know this to be true. What a wonderful reflection (pun intended) we have each and every day, or more so if we chose to look more frequently, to see how we are truly living.

     1. So true. I awoke a bit grumpy the other morning and looked at myself in the mirror, and that grumpiness was reflected and I looked tired and a bit haggard. I then did some Sacred Movement and chose to connect back to me and my beauty and then 10 minutes later was in the bathroom and looked at myself and the transformation was incredible. It was like I had a facelift!

        1. It’s a great example you’ve shared Sarah – I have found the same transformation can occur when I am a little out of sorts – the reflection in the mirror is not so crash-hot but simply connecting with a friend I am reminded of the beauty and joy I naturally am and my appearance then reflects that inner glow.

        2. I love that Sarah, it presents just how simple life truly is and how easily we can come back to just being ourselves.

        3. I have had a similar experience Sarah, I was in the hair dressers and whilst looking in the mirror I looked and felt exhausted after a long week at work, my face looked dull. Then I started to read the emails from the group of ladies in my Sacred Movement group and then when I looked up the colour in my face had changed and I no longer looked exhausted. It just goes to show how the way we live shows in our faces.

        4. This is amazing how we can choose to change movement and with this our whole expression changes.

        5. We carry the external representation of how we feel on the inside, and I love how simple and practical you make it Sarah to say re-connect and your beauty is with you.

        6. Sarah, this is inspirational and very clear that it is simply a matter of choice as to how we feel from one moment to the next. For example we can get out of bed in the mornings feeling a bit ‘grumpy’, and we can choose to stay in that energy by walllowing around in it, or we can choose to do something that will shift something within us and allow a different energy to flow through our bodies. Who needs to spend loads of money on a face lift when you can choose to do 10 minutes of Sacred Movement! : ))

        7. The best type of facelift! It is amazing, you see it when doing energetic facial releases it is incredible the difference a 15 minute massage makes.

        8. Yes and what is significant is in that moment you chose to reconnect, that was your choice and you did the movement. You could have easily let the grumpiness continue and identify with being haggard and eaten some chocolate etc which is often the choices we make to confirm how rubbish we feel rather than take responsibility and make a loving next step.

        9. So beautifully simple, Sarah. Love how you chose to take responsibility for how you were feeling, which led to you looking and feeling very different only 10 minutes later. Historically we’ve not been that great at claiming this responsibility, rather opting to shift the blame onto some exterior factor or person as to why we’re not doing so well.

        10. Wow Sarah, that’s so beautiful to read…this shows that our body movements can change how we feel very quickly. This is transformational and blows away notions of anything we need to do in our minds…it is condition, position and state of our body that affects how we feel about ourselves.

        11. Sarah it just shows how quickly we can connect back to ourselves and feel the shift Immediately, whether it’s via scared movement, gentle breath meditation or even gentle walk, there are many ways to come back to our body.

        12. How we are feeling on the inside is ‘expressed’ all over our face and throughout our body … it’s no wonder that when we are connected to our inner heart, we radiate with beauty and joy ….

        13. Dear Sarah,
            How amazing would it be if Sacred Movement became the new facelift go to place. No cost, no pain and a brand new self and face from the inside out.

        14. Its incredible how much tension and stress we can hold in our face.

        15. This changing observation is very revealing. How we can ‘see’ ourselves differently with our eyes, even in the space of ten minutes and what a difference connection has on our reflection.

        16. It can easily be underestimated just how transformative a choice to not sit in our stuff can be. Getting up and going for a walk, or doing something, anything to take loving responsibility for where you are at can completely change the trajectory of your day.

        17. This is such a great point, in that how we feel actually effects the way we look. I’ve seen it so many times in myself, what we see is simply the energy inside us at that moment, and when we are connected that beauty is ALWAYS there!

        18. I have had this before when not feeling great and looking at all the parts of me that a I used I to find ugly. The simple tool of taking time out and connect to ourselves and go deeper is what true responsibility is about.

        19. How we are living and moving is certainly very powerful. It is little wonder that in connection we become vital and in surrender, our true beauty shines unabated.

        20. Gorgeous Sarah, what you share shows how easily we can return to who we are, simply by taking the time to connect to who we are within. I agree it can be as simple as breathing gently, walking with ourselves, simple movements that confirm who we are and then what shines back to us is our true innate beauty.

        21. Your example Sarah confirms that beauty is not a look but an emanation of how we feel on the inside. It just shows how easily we can re-connect to allow that beauty to shine out again. There is no need for hours in front of the mirror, covering up whatever issue or emotion we have chosen to go into. We just need to come back to the ease and joy that is always within us.

        22. Sarah we all have our off moments but what is truly beautiful is to be honest about it, stop, connect back to yourself (through Sacred Movement) and in this connection we re-express the beauty that was there all along. There is so much beauty in simplicity.

        23. Yes Adele, and sometimes I do that beautifully (as in said moment that I shared) and others I am too attached to complication to come back so simply. But that is my commitment, to be honest and to stop and reconnect. Not in perfection, but to keep committing to it.

     2. How true this is and how important is it then to deeply connect to our bodies and ourselves so that we can really relax and really enjoy being our gorgeous selves all of the time.

        1. ‘Being our gorgeous selves all of the time’ is well worth it – and a great joy.
           This is a very powerful reflection for others not yet saying yes to sharing their immense beauty with the world.

     3. Yes Jenny. It takes a willingness to be very honest with ourselves to choose to look at how we have been living more frequently, and to ask that question, “how have I been living?” But when we do begin to do this and become aware of the choices we are making that have led us up to that point, then surrendering to being open to the reflections we are then offered can and does allow miracles to happen!

     4. So true Arianna. It is not commonly accepted as true in society, but if we don’t feel lovely, beautiful and deeply connected, it is time to stop and check what’s going on. I love the way my body keeps calling me back to my natural way of being, which allows my natural beauty to shine.

     5. Even in disconnection there is beauty as it presents us with the opportunity for us to stop and surrender deeper. We find so much beauty in ourselves when we can simply observe that with no critical thoughts.

392. There are ‘none so blind as those that will not see’ but what about someone that was born blind? Can a blind person be blinded by what they can’t see, no, so why should we judge with what we see and why not just feel the beauty in everyone?

393. “I would obsess on the flaws that no one else could see but myself, and use this as an excuse to hide. ”
     This is common practice Adele, in fact it is considered normal and it is all that is talked about in the beauty industry, that I work in. To admire yourself and see and express your own beauty is unheard of and not even considered.

394. ‘Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.’ Wow, reading this bought it home to me once again that we have an absolute responsibility to make our choices to express the light of our Soul for everyone to see. Thank you Adele.

395. Hold on a second: What have I followed without discerning or questioning when I was a teenager? I totally believed that my worth was determined by my clothes and physicality. It’s as if this thick, dark consciousness attracted me. I wonder which choices led to this attraction and lead so many teens and adults to the same believe-system today? It’s as if we were consciously throwing our natural grace and dignity out of the window at a certain point in our life.

396. There are no images in what true beauty (and fashion) is, as there are no images to what love truly is.

397. When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us.’ So very true Adele, as I know for myself, in the past when I did not hold myself from the knowing that I am absolutely gorgeous as I do now, all sorts of self talk would run me and dictate how I felt about myself. It’s so lovely to have that strong foundation of knowing who you are and feel that within when that talk tries to come in, then you just kick it to the curb with your own self love. You truly have this down pat Adele.

398. Adele I can relate to your experience of the harsh criticism of others, being told I was ugly and then told I was pretty and also judging myself so harshly. Thanks to Universal Medicine I love my body much more and can feel more of my true beauty and that in others that is there to celebrate.

     1. What you Annie and Adele are talking about shows me that how I relate to others, if I judge them to be beautiful or not, has a strong effect and this realization inspires me to now respond to the inner beauty I know & feel is in everyone – no matter of the outside. I get a feeling of, the moment I respond to the inner beauty in others, this is so able to come out of me too.

399. We have the power to support others to feel their true beauty in our own appreciation of ourselves and each other. All through our quality of being with others, our interactions, the connection in our eyes, our tender touch, opening our hearts to each other.

400. “No alterations of body parts necessary, no special beauty or skin care treatments needed, but with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital.” We are not taught self-responsibility or the way we live as being what determines our beauty. We look outside for answers to find they have been within us all along.

401. Your blog is very exposing. I have always thought I lived by the phrase “beauty is skin deep” but in reading this blog I realised how much I am still held by beauty being based on physical appearance. That is where I focus my expression of beauty and think my beauty is based on how I look. Yet I know there is so much more and I am the one missing out on all the beauty in the world by staying in this limiting place where I only see physical beauty.

402. The most glorious part of true beauty is that it is found in every single person on this planet, equally.

     1. Yes Kathryn that is the amazing thing about what Adele presents here, it makes us all equal and it rules out comparison, as it is simply about how much of your beauty you decide to express and display not how much beauty you have or not as we are all equally beautiful sons of God.

403. ‘but with self-responsibility, I have never felt and looked more beautiful and vital.’ Adele this here is the true beauty potion, not found in a bottle but found in our hearts.

404. Meeting another in stillness and looking deeply into their eyes is true beauty and a window to heaven.

     1. Donna you could not have captured it more perfectly. There is no beauty greater than the reflection of heaven when we truly meet and appreciate the true essence of another.

     2. True Donna. The quality of stillness is absolutely beautiful not matter which way you ‘look’ at it. 🙂

     3. Very true Donna. It is an instant confirmation of our divinity and our connection to God.

405. I love this blog and the thoughts it provokes. How often do I look in the mirror and focus only on the flaws and what I deem imperfect? A lot! But by what standards are they imperfect? There is so much beauty to see, in nature, in ourselves and each other. I am understanding that it is a mind set and our eyes are not what discriminates what they receive. I can focus on negatives or revel in the abundance of beauty within.

406. I’m with you on this one Adele, we have been sold that ‘what beauty is’ lies in our outer appearance, yet beauty is with us. Just as we have been sold that God is ‘up there’ rather than within each of us. So it is clear we are being sold the idea that beauty and divinity – the two go hand in hand, is something that needs to be strived for or is unattainable in the perfection it is sold to us in. It is a message aimed to keep us from our own connection and knowing our true beauty. Your dot points you offer all ask you to connect to yourself and it is from here that I too see your beauty coming from Adele.

     1. Thank you Rosanna, I agree,connecting to ourselves opens our inner essence, which from their we see all as equally brothers! The more light we reflect the more the reflection we see in others how beautiful is that.

407. Beauty is often linked to physical appearance, but more and more I see it is in our expression, how we interact, the grace with which we move, the tenderness, the fragility, the way we speak to people, genuine compassion, understanding and accepting others and crucially loving ourselves. This is what beauty is, not whether our figure and our complexion fit a moulded ideal.

     1. Beauty is multi-dimensional and spherical. It cannot be reduced to a look.

        1. Very well said Kathryn and Stephen, beauty is so much grander than the reduced form that we get fed.

        2. Yes Judith grander and forever evolving.

408. The phrase ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ springs to mind, as if to say that if one person doest like you, someone else will. However, while we make beauty about a certain standard of physical appearance, we miss out on the beauty we can see when we look at a person – who they are in their essence, the way they smile and their eyes light up, what makes them laugh or cry and what their dreams are. What is their best moment and their most embarrassing, it is these things, the things that make some one up that are always and unquestionably beautiful to see.

     1. In the shining depth of our self-worth we are our forever beholder.

     2. I love what you share here Rebecca! It shows that if we come from love looking at another we cannot but see their beauty. It is only when we close off to love that we cannot truly see anothers beauty as we create a barrier, a protection between them and us that prevents us from receiving who they are.

        1. I agree Judith – if you don’t want to see your own beauty you will be equally shut off to others, and when you do begin to see that beauty in others, you have to also realise its is equally in you

409. Assigning beauty to an image directs us in a specific way, in a specific direction regarding what stands in the way to feel beautiful. Either we have to learn how to hide certain features or we have to be able to change them.
     For many that go onto either of these paths, this may be it and decide to freeze at that point their relationship with beauty. For many others, this may not be it and get into an incessant attempt of getting there. Whatever of the route we take inspired in the image, true beauty awaits us patiently somewhere else.

410. To feel beautiful is a choice. Not to feel beautiful is also a choice.

     1. So true Eduardo – The simple way to realise the beauty is more then skin deep, it’s more then a ‘look’, it’s a feeling and emanation from within. To live it we must choose it.

     2. How we move leads to these different choices. Move differently and we naturally choose differently.

411. Imagine for a minute we could make a picture of a Soul and post it in the street in an add that says, we are all equally beautiful. Will it fly? Probably, it will not say much to us as that image will never be as attractive as another picture of a seemingly beautiful human being. Yet, nothing can beat the Soul in majesty. That brings us to a crucial point, the limitations of our five senses to truly feel beauty.

412. The physical appearance as barometer of beauty is a killer since the vast majority belong to the not so lucky side of the fence. If on top of this we clock that life gets easier for ‘them’ as they tend to get what they want compared to ‘us’ not having such an easy ride, life has given us the perfect excuse to accept that we are less than another one and dictates our course of action: we have to try hard to change sides. So, now we have a mission in life.

413. The fact that we are beautiful can get lost in the images that become so important to achieve. There is a way to find beauty within by confirming who you are. It is a brave step to make, and not one without it’s challenges, but when beauty is felt and confirmed your whole life can change, because the perspective that you walk in has changed, so even if nothing actually changes on the outside, your entire inner relationship with yourself and with the divine can shift.

414. As the phrase goes ‘the ideal of beauty is’ X and Z. The idea of beauty talks to an ideal and any ideal has an image behind of how has to be. We judge ourselves and others based on that image. It is like an instant scan (image against image), leading to an instant verdict.

415. If I go through a period where I have late nights, lack of self care, eating foods which I know do not support, push myself with work and don’t express who I am I shrink and start to hide from the world, I shut down my light, hide my beauty and my wings start to wilt. There is no beauty in this and when I look in the mirror this is what is reflected back. There is no beauty when we shut down and hide our essence, our beauty comes from showing the world the preciousness of who we are.

416. Over the last few years I have been living on a tight budget and buying the least expensive face cream and cleansing products I could find. I don’t recommend this per se as I feel it is important to use good quality products which feel right and suit our skin but it’s what I chose to do in order to save money for a short time. What is interesting is that the youthfulness and vitality in my appearance has improved 10 times more in the last few years than it ever did with any expensive cream or product. What has changed is the way I am living, there is less anxiety, stress and tension in my body all of which gets displayed in our faces. I take time to get the proper rest I need by going to bed early and ensuring the way I take myself to bed is supportive with a period of winding down before sleep. I eat foods which are supportive to my body and I now have a sparkle in my eyes and clarity in my skin that shows my beauty. This has nothing to do with my physical features it is the reflection of the loving choices I have made that allow my essence to be seen. When I wake every morning this is what I see when I put on my make up. I feel beautiful because I can see the self care I am taking of myself reflected back in the mirror. I no longer see the tired, dull reflection of someone who is giving up on life and can’t be bothered to look after herself because she doesn’t feel she is worth it, I see someone who loves life and loves herself.

     1. This here Fiona is testimony to the fact that we have the power within us to feel beautiful and it is not something we are just gifted with or lucky to be born with.
        There is nothing quite like a good nights sleep to make us feel beautiful.
        No jar of cream can bring us that 🙂

417. I love your blog Adele there is so many lines that stand out for me. “What I have realized now is that I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me. Beauty is much more than skin deep.” Taking responsibility (responsibility being the key word here) for the beauty that is within me, my delicateness my tenderness and fragility and allowing the world to see this rather than all the images ideal and issues that we carry around daily. This is a true reflection to offer the world and shows that beauty is so much more than our outer appearances.

418. I used to think that life must be so easy for the people that are really good looking,beautiful, attractive all in the physical sense and I often wished I didn’t look the way I did, being bombarded with images of models,movie stars and sportsmen. I almost laugh now at the way I used to think as when experiencing the beauty the flow out from people and feeling it within, the old way of thinking is so skin deep and superficial.

     1. I have had the same thoughts Kevin – that the really gorgeous people have it easy. What’s with that, and where did I get that idea from? Unbeknownst to me, people were probably looking at me and thinking the same thing! There are so many falsely believed ideals out there around beauty and this blog is a great place to ponder on what exactly we are run by in terms of thoughts and what dictates our choices to believe them in the first place.

419. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.” What a powerful statement one that reveals the true responsibility we all have each day to choose to live our truth or not. It reflects the fact that each of us plays an important part in life and when we are expressing from our inner heart anything is possible!

     1. That is a gorgeous and very powerful comment. I ask myself that question as how much of my Soul’s light am I expressing? I know the depth and beauty of the light of my soul and how that is bursting within me to be expressed. Am I letting it out or choosing to express something else?

420. I have always felt a deep responsibility working in the image industry, as how I look is not fixed, because this body is is in constant evolution. The truth is there is no one image to perfect, if we do individually or as an industry, we are denying evolution and hence truth.

     1. Our look is not fixed and as I read your comment Adele I felt the deep beauty I have seen in people who’s faces have been disfigured from an accident or assault. Beauty emanates, it is not at surface level it is a light that radiates from within.

     2. Adele the image industry is one where most people take no responsibility for the images that are put out, more often than not the skin is touched up and the body altered. It’s great that you are working in the industry to show that beauty is about quality first and foremost.

        1. It is disturbing the level of irresponsibility this industry has. We are fed pictures of beauty that are humanly impossible to achieve and many hold themselves in comparison to that picture of beauty.

        2. Afterall, what the image industry is producing as a whole comes from accepting and aligning with the picture of perfection which comes from we are never good enough and we prove ourselves right as there is never perfection in life. But our entire industry exists because of this picture, so letting it go means whatever we have built for ourselves and as an industry has to change.
           The irresponsibility we see in the image industry is from everyone of us in the world with every thought of lack of self-worth entertained and the expression of every moment of fullness held back.

     3. I agree Katie, the more we let go of the images and pictures which are fed to us of what beauty is the more we see beauty in each and every person. After all we are all a reflection of God so how can we not be beautiful?

     4. Accepting any picture of beauty is reducing the grandness that we are.

     5. Where I live there is the most delightful lady, I think she told me she was over 90. She is gorgeous, always joyful and always appreciating the world around her. She is the most beautiful women and when she smiles with the appreciation of life I see the most sprightly twinkle in her eye. Beauty has nothing to do with line free skin and everything to do with the way we shine.

421. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” This is so true Adele we are all responsible for our choice. When I choose not to shine my true beauty, for me it is usually because I have chosen to allow my hurts to run me which is also a choice. When I choose to feel and let go of that hurt and reconnect with my beauty I offer myself and humanity a blessing.

422. Such a powerful blog , we have the power to reflect our true beauty for all to see and feel when we are connected to who we truly are.

423. That’s truly gorgeous Gill: “looking into someone’s eyes and seeing the depth of their connection to their inner heart, and reflecting you your connection in full..” – yes, I love the eyes they tell so much don’t they….the eye of true beauty or a truly beautiful person reflects the truth and beauty of what’s inside of you too equally as the recipient of their grandness that you see and feel. When I think about women’s glossy magazines – do we receive this from the models, or more instead some kind of emptiness through the vacancy of a model like stare or pose radiating the contra of self-connectedness.

424. What I’ve come to learn is that at the basis of true Beauty is the acceptance of oneself, and in this the quality with which we hold ourselves in life – at ease and harmony or the reverse where our face and body mark the particular hold. When we accept, we digest life (in all ways literally, physically, emotionally) differently with the outside becoming a reflector of that inner settlement to showcase the great beauty that’s there internally and externally. It’s why you can observe super good looking people yet there is a holding back of their beauty through non self-acceptance or surrendering, to become more ornamental beauty that falls so far off the exquisiteness beauty truly is.

     1. Beautiful Zofia. Where we accept life we are at ease it in and we can let ourselves out in full. Without acceptance of life we are in battle with it and when we are in battle it is hard for beauty to be expressed. When flowing through life we move with beauty.

425. “We are all equally beautiful in our essence, and we can all choose to be aware of how this fact is expressed in our physical presence when we are not limited by the definition of what physical beauty is”. A very powerful sharing, Adele, and how true it is. When we truly connect to our essence, we can experience the great love and beauty that we are, then when we take that way of being into the world, we can feel that same beauty and love that is deep within every other person we come in contact with. They may not be living that on the outside, so unless one is connected to oneself, we may not feel that beauty that they truly are. But that does not mean that it is not there.

426. When you consider that each and every moment is perfectly designed, and placed in this world to bring us back to truth, and this is happening for all 7 billion+ of us at the same time, is that not the most beautiful thing of all? And if you agree, how could there be any part of this world that is not beautiful in truth? It’s all returning us to the true beauty we are – LOVE. Thank you Adele, for outlining this universal beauty we are from.

     1. Thank you, Joseph, this description of ‘universal beauty’ feels so joyful, as I know and can feel that the magic of God is there in every moment and we cannot but be a part of it.

427. Beautiful Adele. These are the true facial cleansing rituals…..when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.

     1. Tested and lived Vicky, as these are the only facial, cleansing and pampering rituals I have been using for the last few years, true advertising is in our bodies from how we live.

     2. And they would be the beauty treatments that are free and available for all clients. When these rituals are fully recognised for what they offer, then all the beauty regimes and products that promise the earth without reminding us what truly matters when it comes to our inner and outer beauty will also begin to be exposed.

428. Wonderful blog Adele. By taking responsibility and choosing to reconnect to, and live from our inner-most, allows our true beauty to be felt by all.

429. ‘I know how every action, word and thought affects my body…’ I am beginning to understand the depth to which this is true. Given that I express only through my body, the honour I hold it in is what is left for me to feel all day, every day and shows up physically of course.

430. Hi Adele, you write; “true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically” and whilst I agree in the way you present it, it also occurs to me that when we allow the true beauty we all are equally within to shine out, then we all do look physically absolutely beautiful regardless of the individual differences in features we may have.

     1. Agree Nicola, we look physically so beautiful and gorgeous when there an acceptance of who we truly are, and allow this to be or shine out. True beauty’s manifestation indeed has a physical good look or appearance.

     2. What constitutes physical beauty is a picture we carry, what is truly beautiful is image-free.

        1. Yes Adele – these images blind us from the truth of beauty within everyone, equally. I feel appreciation is a huge game changer here and can help bust down the images of beauty that reduce our vision to what is otherwise all around. Learning to appreciate the beauty within someone’s eyes or a movement towards another are moments where beauty becomes more then a surface layer but a lived activity.

431. I love this statement -“What I have realized now is that I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me”. It is our responsibility to live true to who we truly are and when we see it as a responsibility rather than a privilege we may or may not take up then everything changes. The arrogance of thinking that we have a right to be less than who we are drops away as we begin to accept the divine beings that we are.

432. We keep convincing ourselves that we only have our five senses, but even when we are not aware of the fact we have a sixth sense the deepens our experience of all the other five. There is far more to sight than seeing things like physical features and there is no physical image more beautiful than an inner heart recognising the expression of another inner heart.

433. I love your list of questions – great beauty tips and much more economical than buying this and that ‘magic’ skin cream! Thank you Adele for exposing the truth on beauty.

434. “What I have realized now is that I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me.” Looking at beauty in this way brings a completely different perspective to what we are doing when we shy away from accepting and expressing from our true beauty – we are in effect being irresponsible.That’s a powerful wake-up call!The denial of our beauty has been normalised as ‘modesty’ howeverI can feel it really is a powerful act of stubborn defiance – a refusal to see the love we are within.

     1. Modesty is a picture we have accepted to hide. Hiding is ugly, there is no truth and no true beauty in hiding.

        1. And yet modesty is so often championed and is another trick to keep us less so that we do not shine forth our true beauty.

     2. Wow Lucy a powerful wake up call indeed. Modesty is a denial of who we are and its like a little kid stomping its foot and saying no I’m not playing that game, I’m not going to bring all of who I am to the party. This is a huge wake up call for me today, thank you.

435. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” I can very much relate to this Adele I was recently sick with flu and a cough and I could feel how I had stop shining and allowed disharmony into my life and the end result was not only feeling sick but not looking myself, in fact I could hardly recognise myself. It was a great lesson in seeing how far disharmony in my life could take me away from my natural beauty and in my case eventually lead to sickness.

436. I love how we can use clothes and make-up as a further expression of our beauty in the world and find there is such a difference choosing clothes and the way we style ourselves when it comes from that place of already feeling and accepting our beauty as opposed to trying to make up for not feeling it or to fit an image we think we should…

     1. I agree Fiona. In the past there are times when I’ve chosen my clothes for the day in total anxiousness and frustration – I consciously picked out things that would make me ‘fit in’ to a group or trend as best I could, and was annoyed that even after dressing when I went outside I didn’t feel they patched up my difference well enough – I still stood out. Isn’t it interesting how so many of us would much prefer to wear clothes that we don’t really love, than express in full through garments and stand out.

437. Question: What makes us more beautiful: being with ourselves in full and connection to one’s heart? .. Or.. being not truly yourself and being connected to something else that one’s heart?.. It is very simple, and felt from a far.

438. Powerful but very beautiful piece written by you Adele Leung. What is so prevalent is that beauty is within and that it is not virtual, even though how we feel within can be expressed through our skin, eyes, shine of face and glow of skin and hear. Also our shape of body parts can feel and look totally different when true beauty within is being acknowledged,accepted and lived:) What I love about this blog is that it breaks all old believes I had about beauty, and I know that everything you say is true beauty, and so, all the old ideals, beliefs and ways do no longer matter for me. As I know that beauty is and comes from within.

439. Beauty-full Adele, I loved how you describe beauty as self-responsibility. The world needs to hear this. The more self-responsible you are the more beauty you are. Does not sound so hard?

     1. In fact, beauty is so simple, it is just like breathing, when we embrace responsibility and evolution.

     2. Yes Rik, the world does need to hear this. Feeling truly beautiful has nothing to do with being arrogant or full of yourself, quite the reverse it is humbling as we realise it is simply about taking responsibly for the choices we make.

440. ‘True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.’ This really opens beauty up to being equally something we share and have a responsibility to connect with.

     1. Great point Abby And Adele and takes away the identification we have with beauty or the illusion that we own it. It is something we all are at essence, something we all share and something we all are responsible to connect to and reflect!

441. Awesome blog Adele, that reveals the secret to true beauty is living and loving you from the inside out!

     1. And what a revelation when we discover the awesome radiating beauty that we are – equal to the greatest sunset or the best tropical beach or whatever is our fancy – and to feel that and express from that place.

442. Great questions and a great sharing – When I read I was reminded of how easy it can be to only look at the surface whereas when you look a little more closely into someone’s eyes you can experience something grander and the physical features are then of less importance.

     1. It’s true Matts. The more I accept and live the beauty I am the more I look beyond what is on the surface and see the deep beauty in everyone. It’s very humbling.

443. This is stunning, Adele, a clear and loving study of what beauty actually is. If I had read this as a teenage girl, it would have rocked my world, and so I do hope this blog is shared far and wide.

444. True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.Lets all celebrate our true beauty every day building new foundations of beauty in the world . Thank you for this inspiring blog Adele.

445. I absolutely love these words – ‘Choosing to not hold back in all my movements for the absolute majesty of God to be expressed?’

     1. Me too Johanna!

446. To date the world has fallen for the mass illusion of beauty and it continues to go in the wrong direction with more and more becoming unhealthily obsessed with their looks and features. Adele what you are sharing is the truth in all of us yet unfortunately society has a long way to go before we all claim this as our natural way of being.

447. Adele, this feels so true, ‘We are all beautiful.’ Since I have been living in a way that is much more self loving and now I feel more confident in myself and know who I am and see and feel the beauty within me I have also noticed how beautiful other people are too, I used to only notice the outer appearance and be very judgmental, whereas now I see the true beauty in everyone I meet.

448. This is a well needed article exposing the truth about beauty and that we do not need to in any way be caught in the many ideals and beliefs that beauty is something you buy, can get from the outside world. The very fact that this is not working in our society today with all the plastic surgery rates sky rocketing confirms that we are living out of sync with our true connection and this is of great harm to our relationships with ourselves.

449. Thank you Adele. I can relate to much of what you share especially the part about looking physically beautiful yet not feeling it. I used to feel this many years ago before I started to self care and self appreciate. You are completely right in saying that it is about us living our inner beauty.

450. Adele this is an amazing sharing and perfect for me to read today and this week. I am working at appreciating and truly valuing all I am and bring and your blog was absolutely a confirmation for me.

451. “Am I taking care of myself tenderly?” This question alone is beautiful. When we introduce the word tenderly we bring a much larger realm and dimension into play. There is a responsibility of course but there too is an underlying current of love.

     1. Yes I feel that too Jenny. The word tenderness brings a greater depth to how we feel and express love and all the facets that encapsulates.

     2. We can temporally ‘take care of ourselves’ by eating well, exercising, showering/washing, getting outside, dressing well and so forth, but it is the QUALITY in which we do these things that is important, and that makes ALL the difference to our lives.

        1. This is could not agree more with Susie as the quality is the most nurturing part and the part that we seek most as the quality is our own connection to ourselves.

        2. The quality in which we do these things in is what develops true self-care and self-nurturing. Without the quality of connection in all that we do, it doesn’t really matter what we do, we will never feel the beauty in these activities until we focus on HOW we are in activity.

        3. Quality comes first and when we connect with this quality the movement that follows whether it is sitting down to do makeup for an hour or applying lipstick on a moving bus reflects this quality.

452. Our beauty is the love we are and no Soul here on Earth is denied access to such undeniable magnificence. It is merely our choice whether we connect to and express this beauty or not.

     1. Gorgeous Liane – and back to responsibility we go by the fact that it’s all a choice, yet we can never really play the ‘ugly’ card for in truth ‘Our beauty is the love we are and no Soul here on Earth is denied access to such undeniable magnificence.’ So beautiful!

453. Beauty is so much more than skin deep for it is deeply infused in our every pore, poured forth from the divinity we belong to. Thankyou Adele, for such an exquisite confirmation of this truth.

454. ‘If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes? Are they puffy and have dark circles or reflecting the clarity that I know? Is my face reflecting my natural joy, and is my skin reflecting vitality? “- great reminder Adele to look into the mirror and see what am I reflecting to the world around me- true vitality and joy or givenupness and suffering/pain . I feel it is about self responsibility and choice.

     1. And the level of honesty required here is huge Loretta, as we can easily sugar-coat how we are feeling with our hair and make-up but really there is no point because it is always felt. Do we allow ourselves to be fragile and tender with ourselves? This is something I am allowing more and more and I am blown away with how honouring this is and supportive it is for developing my relationship with myself.

455. Beauty is absolutely much more than skin deep Adele and when I asked myself the questions you asked yourself I feel and appreciate just how far I have come with developing self-love and just how much I have to celebrate and share as I forever deepen my self-love and nurturing my expression of love for humanity opens and expands.

456. “We are all equally beautiful in our essence, and we can all choose to be aware of how this fact is expressed in our physical presence when we are not limited by the definition of what physical beauty is.” I felt a great sense of freedom reading this line. How wonderful to be reminded that beauty is something we can all choose to express and has nothing to do with appearance. Your blog asks me to take responsibility for how I choose to express in the world.

457. It really is daft to ever think that beauty is only defined by the way we look because that would be saying that a blind person does not know what beauty is – but we do get caught in that. I once saw a video clip where a group of blind people were describing how they saw beauty, and it really made me realise how the visual images could actually get in a way of us appreciating the true beauty of what we are and what is around us.

     1. Yes Fumiyo, because beauty isn’t hinged solely on the way we look physically though the good look is a byproduct when there is a self-connected way of living life, as too is how we feel to another person who easily feels that ease, contentment and harmony within that has a tangible yet also intangible feel to it…The blind live in such a world (of feeling over seeing) and so their definition of beauty I imagine is far likely to be more spot on than many of us who have visual sight who often are deterred from feeling (a person’s essence or energy).

458. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” All we have to do is be consistent in choosing loving choices for beauty is a natural part of love.

459. This is so true. Such a beauty to be felt and seen in each other that is missed when I’m disconnected.

     I so appreciate knowing this so that when the world is looking ugly and I cannot see the innate beauty in another no matter what their behaviour that is masking it, I am knowing to reconnect.

460. Adele your whole blog radiates absolute beauty – shining gorgeously for all equally.

461. Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices”.
     Such a powerful sentence Adele, thank you for sharing your wisdom and experiences. Indeed it is up to each and every one of us to shine brightly and divinely our love and light.

462. “I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens.” What you have shared here Adele is a timeless recipe for the ‘magical secret’ to true beauty.

     1. Yes I have certainly been touched by Adele’s development of what true beauty means, from the deeper understanding that it is through expressing our innermost joy and harmony that allows beauty to expand right through to the surface of our skin and glows outwards.

463. Comparison with others is the driver of the outer ‘beauty’ belief and scene, which will never view all as equally beautiful. It sees each person as an individual competing against another in comparison, and yet we are each full of beauty with our own unique way of naturally expressing this, and when we do so we are accepting our beauty – there is no comparison and we see each other as equally beauty-full.

     1. Very true Paula, comparison is ugly!

        1. I love that truth need not be complicated, ‘comparison is ugly’, truth…the end.

        2. Not only does truth not need to be complicated it actually never is!

464. Inner beauty is the diamond that lay’s awaiting to be seen again. We can spend many years covering up this diamond and trying to recreate it with make-up, never working out why our eyes never shine. Your blog is beautiful Adele in showing how much more beauty can be seen on the outside when the beauty is nurtured from within.

     1. It is a beautiful blog and your addition, Kim, is also beautiful. Nurturing the beauty inside is the true medicine of beauty.

     2. kimweston2 if we valued ourselves for our unique, individual essense we would all see the diamond within…. Unfortunately most go through life without the reflection of who we are in truth and the true beauty within.

        1. Absolutely Merrily, and so the responsibility to shine with all our beauty is felt. We are the reflection for others to see what lives and shines within.

465. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is …. an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” How gorgeous is this… all the outer stuff, the drive for individual external beauty, only succeeds in complicating something that is divine in its simplicity – already within us waiting to be connected to.

466. In a world where beauty is defined and championed by the outer physical appearance, it is truly gorgeous to be told that this bastardised way of viewing ourselves and each other only limits us to truly living the true beauty of what lays within.
     We were not born to be limited.

     1. Very true Samantha. Many people have never had the truth reflected to them that beauty is about the quality of WITHIN not the ‘look’ of the outside, and thus we have a responsibility to say this to people and confirm that they’re beautiful no matter what society says or manipulates them to think.

        1. I agree Susie and we therefore have permission to truly enjoy our own beauty and not hold even an ounce of it back.

     2. Very true Samantha. We are not born to be limited. Why limit beauty to just the physical appearance. This is only one dimension of the amazing beings that we are.

467. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices”, a wonderful truth that is very worth taking responsibility for – for all the beauty that the soul can bring when we choose. This is our ‘soul/sole’ purpose in life.

     1. You have soul-ed me!

     2. Beautifully said Sandra and how true this is, we have been robbed of this simple truth in society and hardship has become our normal way which depicts why we are suffering as a consequence. Knowing that our sole purpose is to reconnect back to our innate truth ‘our soul’ takes all the hardship away and makes life the simplicity it truly is.

468. All I could think of was self love being the true make up for beauty. How, if one wishes to look truly gorgeous, to start applying the love cream from the inside. No amount of makeup is going to change our reflection from the inside, but a little bit of love will clear the way for it to shine upon many.

     1. Yes Kim, self-love is a great foundation up which to build the true beauty of love.

     2. I agree Kim, no amount of make up can truly cover how we are living and what we feel about ourselves, self loving or otherwise.

469. Thank you Adele, another inspirational blog and I love this paragraph “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” I am continually awed by the quality of our true essence, an energy that lights us from within and makes us glow with vitality, clarity and love, filling our eyes with a sparkle that brightens up everyone’s day. This is true beauty and however classically “beautiful” a person may be physically, it is the connection to this inner joy that truly makes us beautiful people that then enhances our physical appearance in whatever form that may be.

470. ‘Am I Allowing myself and life to unfold in the deepest acceptance?’ This is a great question that reminds me that this is how we can live every day – deepening our relationship with ourselves and accepting and appreciating all that we are.

     1. Yes, everyday we have the opportunity to uncover and accept more of ourselves and bring all that we are to life.

471. When one meets someone living and expressing from their essence the beauty is a blessing to behold.

     1. And each time we behold it, we expand further in understanding our own beauty.

        1. Great comment, where the truth can be felt in every word.

        2. There is nothing like it Jonthan and Heather, the only thing is we don’t see enough of it. Imagine everyone asking around owning their inner-beauty and letting it shine out for all to enjoy as a continuous reflection of the equal beauty in us all. What a world it would.

        3. Yes Heather, each person we meet offers a further reflection to us of the beauty we are.

     2. True 🙂

     3. very true!

472. Adele, you are a walking example of what you share here in your blog. What struck me when I met you recently was your absolute beauty that yes on a temporal physical attribute sense was there, but your beauty was so much deeper than that. The depth of expressing your essence, your joy and purity shone through your eyes, I couldn’t but help fall in love with you. True beauty is indeed so much more than skin deep, thank you for reflecting this to the world.

     1. I have never met Adele and yet I feel her divine beauty in the way she expresses. When it is accepted and lived in full, it is felt in everything we express.

     2. So true Donna, our true beauty is an energy that radiates out through our eyes and is felt in our lightheartedness and steady joy, that once connected to enhances and re-vitalises our physical features. Falling in love with another is inevitable, as it is a quality that resides in us all and one that continually calls us home to our true selves.

473. For me it was only when I felt my beauty through connecting with my essence did I come to understand that true beauty comes from within. The more I focus on expressing from my essence do I feel just how deeply beautiful I am, as is equally everyone else.

     1. I agree Donna, the more I connect to my true beauty the more I see it in everyone else at the same time as noting how and why they are not always expressing it!

474. I love how you highlight self-love, tenderness, appreciation and joy as the best ‘makeover’ ever. How cool would it be to have a reality tv show on this basis.

     1. Now that would quash many a sitcom and marketing plan to realise we are all packed with beauty – the true stuff that cant be applied, put on or made over.

     2. Now that would be a show worth watching, and a show where people would learn true care instead of how to patch up and feel good on a momentary basis. A show that inspires one to make themselves up to complement what already shines with in.

     3. Yes please Jeanette 👌🏼

475. The sliding scale of beauty, and the judgement that we place on someone regarding where we place them on that scale is so damaging. That applies no matter where someone is judged to fall on it. The beauty we hold within is innate, undeniable when it is expressed in all its glory and far outshines the beauty which fits into our current social acceptance.

     1. That’s just it Naren, once the scale is there we all loose no matter how seeming ‘high’ or ‘low’ we fall on it. We’re trying to measure and frame something innate, which is beyond this world and in trying to box it we deaden it and we dishonour it and ourselves. There is such a beauty in all of us and it’s for us to learn to live and express that beauty with ourselves and all others – each of us brings a singular beauty to the world that no one else can and the beauty of all of us being that singular beauty we each carry is stupendous.

        1. I agree Monica. Our classifications of beauty only limit it, and do not honour just how vast and deep it truly is.

476. I agree Adele every choice we make has an affect on our body and for me it reflects very much especially in my eyes.

     1. After a Chakra-puncture treatment today it was clear my eyes reflected the beauty of my soul, and that is to be appreciated.

477. That’s a superb analogy Brendan – knowing that the market is overflowing with countless variations of ‘fillers’ that promise to make us more ‘beautiful’.

478. The responsibility of beauty, who would have thought, Adele you’ve opened my eyes to what it means to be beautiful and to live that beauty, and that’s the thing, we all have an innate timeless beauty within us and it’s up to us to live that. And many of us don’t, and many of us are waking up to the fact that ultimately that’s how we change the world by living the beauty we are in it. I reckon part of our societies obsession with outer beauty and beauty measures is a diversion, an excuse for the fact that deep down we all know our beauty and that it is to be lived.

     1. I agree with what you share Monica, this blog is an eyeopener for us to see the importance to live our inner beauty.

     2. …and to not live it is utterly irresponsible!

479. But we have been so programmed to only see beauty in the physical sense that it takes some time to reconnect and allow ourselves to feel this inner beauty, and see that it is in all equal.

     1. Time for some global reprogramming i say – lets clear the bugs that cap us keeping us tightly controlled and watch this space as cyberspace expands …bring on the true spaciousness.

        1. I am with you on that, cyberspace would be an amazing space when there would be some space added, making it able to expand in the grand interconnected environment it can be.

     2. I agree Benkt. It is such an ingrained belief in society that physical/exterior beauty is more important that valuing yourself for who you are, and that in order to be ‘successful’ and beautiful you need to meet the ideals and expectations that have been set regarding what is ‘attractive’ and what is not. It is utter absurdity that we are now in a day and age where many people care little to nothing about the quality of their internal environment, taking care of themselves under the surface (through not disregarding our bodies or making ourselves exhausted), who also believe that unless they tick the boxes of their beliefs then they are not beautiful, and thus not worthy of care, love or appreciation.

480. love this blog, it accentuates our beauty we have within. And it makes me feel this beauty within, which is what I take from it, when being in connection with our inner most we can feel this beauty, and it will shine.

     1. It redefines the word beauty into something that is felt.

        1. Yes, beauty is not physical but an expression from our essence that is already felt before it is confirmed by seeing.

     2. I can relate Benkt as I read this blog I am drawn to connect with my beauty, it’s refreshing.

481. I wholeheartedly agree Adele, I see my choices on my face and body everyday. We can so clearly see and feel if we want to, how someone is living by how they look, walk, talk and work. It reminds me of the saying ‘I look how I feel’ or ‘you look how I feel’. I just turned 40 and most people thought I was at least 10 years younger if not more. There were many comments of you’re lucky or you have good genes and a few ‘you must look after yourself’. We all know how we live affects us.

     1. Agree Aimee, beauty is in the way we live life, its quality and the movement of this – in harmony and with love. There is nothing greater than to have this mark your face, look, body and being.

        1. It’s simply gorgeous when this is our result from the way we live life.

        2. A true marker of beauty Zofia

     2. So true Aimee, just like wearing your heart on your sleeve we wear our Beauty in our expression.

     3. How true this is Aimee how we live, the choices we make all effect whether or not our true beauty is felt and seen in the world. It always begins with how we see ourselves.

482. Our outer is taken care of when we live in connection to our inner.

     1. Beautiful Matthew. Our outer is a beautiful mirror reflecting the truth of our souls inner expression.

     2. Exactly Matt.

     3. Well said Matthew. I have found that I can slip in to forgetting this and life starts to feel like a struggle but the beauty of the solution is that it is always there inside of us, we simply have to know it and live from it’s quality and everything else changes to reflect this.

     4. A quote the world needs to read.

     5. This is a perfect way of expressing it Matthew. There is nothing so beautiful in seeing the shine and joy in another. An animated face, no matter its physical proportions, is simply stunning.

        1. The inspiration one person causes by radiating their beauty is like one candle igniting the next candle until the room is full of light. Beauty is something we can but respond to, as our bodies yearn to be reflected that quality of divinity on earth.

     6. That is how simple it actually is – to live from within out and not the other way around, forever wanting and striving.

     7. Profound, and simply expressed Matthew

     8. This is obvious in the faces of people truly taking care of their inner connection. Often they look healthier and younger.

        1. I agree kerstinsalzer15 but there is also a depth to their beauty, a multi-faceted diamond as opposed to the skin deep beauty we see in fashion.

     9. So simple but true Matthew, our choice to reconnect to our Soul that love, which is our inner beauty or inner-most. It is life changing to be reawakened and feel the love that resides within!

        1. It is indeed “life changing to be reawakened and feel the love that resides within!” It simply comes down to a choice – do we choose the path of true Love, or not…?

     10. Wise and true words.
         Tend to our soil and we will produce bountiful fruits.

     11. Our inner is taken care of by the attention we give to the whole of us, the inner and the outer.

     12. Exactly so, our outer reflects our inner. There is nothing on this earth more beautiful than seeing someone living in connection to their Soul.

         1. After writing the above it occurred to me that whilst in truth there is nothing more beautiful than the expression of divinity on earth, there are some who are in absolute resistance and denial to their essence and true beauty. These people may well consider such expression to be ugly or abhorrent because it will trigger within them the deep hurt and missing of all that they are not choosing and expressing.

     13. How true, Matthew, and just how simple is that! Why is it that we so complicate life, how crazy we can be.

     14. What a simple powerful truth Matthew.

     15. Absolutely, if only this was taught to every young child, it would dissolve many self-worth issues.

     16. Perfect Matthew – the outer is taken care of when we live in connection to our inner

     17. Simple and spot on Matthew. It is amazing how much we glow when we a truly taking care of ourselves. You just have to look at the Universal Medicine before and after pictures to see the change – regardless of of age or past choices it is never too late to take care of ourselves and show off how amazing each and every one of us is.

     18. So true Matthew, when we polish our inner connection, the glow is very apparent on the outside, in the quality of our eyes, our skin and our smile. We do truly light up with life and beauty, regardless of our outer appearance, love imbues everyone with the same irresistible gorgeousness.

         1. I love that Rowena; love imbues everyone with the same irresistible gorgeousness. Love is a great equaliser, no matter who we are or what we look like, it can be the essence of every cell if we so choose to let it shine.

     19. Such simplicity in truth, beautiful put Matthew.

     20. This is so true Matthew, ‘Our outer is taken care of when we live in connection to our inner.’ I have observed this in myself and other men and women that attend Universal Medicine courses, when we are connected and feeling our loveliness our true beauty shines out, if someone is in self doubt or lack of self worth then the person does not look so beautiful on the outside, so the inner very much determines our outer beauty.

     21. ‘Our outer is taken care of when we live in connection to our inner.’ – yes it is, we light up and radiate the love that we are, there is nothing more beautiful than that.

     22. Well said Matthew

     23. Which is a testimony to the fact that everything starts with the intention – the choice of energy, which is reflected directly and always to the outside. How could it be any different?

     24. We cannot but care for our outer when we are connected to our inner, for we know the beauty we truly are.

483. ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ or it could be said ‘our magnificence is observed by holding the love that is within our inner-most’ and then only when we hold that same quality of love for all others equally, our inner beauty is shared because we have recognised that love in ourselves first! Thank you Adele and Serge Benhayon an amazing insight into life!

     1. Every true love affair starts with the love first felt within.

        1. So simple but true Adele, love can only be recognised once it becomes part of the way we move and live our life and that movement comes from the “love affair” within first!

        2. There can be no love affair with another until the love affair within has begun.

484. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices.”. How amazing to read this line in an article about Beauty, True Beauty that is. Recently I was aware of the polar difference in physical beauty – in this instance hair – when the person is connected to their inner-heart. It’s like the hair became instantly alive, shiney and attractive. And it’s true, it’s a natural responsibility for us all, the response to the inner-love that is waiting to be connected to.

     1. And hair is but a part of the whole – imagine a whole being ignited by the fire we are – now that is a rocket explosion of Love…it cant but affect the entire sphere we share.

        1. Wow, Deborah, that feels so powerful, ‘a rocket explosion of Love’, an apt description, and just think (feel), one day that will be how the world is. It is up to us to bring this time forward.

        2. So True Deborah. What if it would be common, natural in the world to shine our inner Beauty in full? It is indeed a rocket explosion of Love. Affecting the all, healing the all. How great would it be if we stopped polluting this planet and take responsibility in every move we make.

        3. There is an exquisite beauty in living our true essence.

        4. Absolute Love, expanding the Universe – this starts with each of us.

        5. Beautifully said Deborah. If we lived appreciating this ‘rocket explosion of Love’ that we have the potential to be every moment of every day, then it really would have an enormous impact on everyone around us and beyond. And when we truly begin to appreciate this, magic happens.

        6. Appreciation leads to more appreciation and a deeper understanding of Life. This is magic in every moment for never are we without the magic of life and the Love we are.

        7. Love it Deborah lighting up the world from our true essence and beauty our inner heart!

        8. I love this Deborah yes ‘ a rocket explosion of Love.’ The world would be one giant ball of cascading light from everyone’s beauty being expressed in full. That is too cool.

        9. “There is an exquisite beauty in living our true essence.”, words that are worth it to be repeated, repeated and once again repeated! It is everything. If we live with ourselves, everything we do is filled with the Beauty that we ALL innately are. Beauty is often perceived as something only 3D. But True Beauty is felt first, before it is received as form, matter, manifestation. That’s what both Women and Men are to come back to and remember.

        10. “Absolute Love, expanding the Universe – this starts with each of us.”. This pearl of Wisdom is revealing to me how there’s nothing to reach, no end point, no goal – so no drive needed. There’s just a being that is naturally connected to everything around him / her. Yet we are to choose this connection in every moment of the day. It’s either choosing this connection with ourselves and life = contributing to the expansion of the Universe, or allowing ourselves to be distracted in all the ways life is offering us distractions. Wow, never had it so clear. Thank you Deborah.

     2. I can relate to that, Floris, I have noticed that when I am feeling great, really connected to myself, my hair takes on a different appearance, seems to be much easier to manage, and really shines. But until I read your comment, I had not actually realised this. But also, take a look at your own eyes in the mirror, that shows it all.

        1. I love looking into my own eyes. Even if my mind is a bit heavy, whenever I have a look in the mirror I receive myself with the clear and lovely sight of my eyes. There’s a real tenderness in my eyes when I choose to look from being connected to my heart. I cannot but see Love in others. Beauty has so much more to offer than ‘just’ the skin. We’re all innately Beautiful.

        2. This morning I had a very fragile, open, real conversation with a fellow (male) brother. At the end we shared our appreciation of the conversation and each other. At that moment I could feel also the enormous Appreciation around me and how I actually struggle to let it in and allow myself to be Truly appreciated and loved. Choosing to be aware of this is a Beautiful step, although a baby step as I’m realising that I’m the one who’s to let the Appreciation of Life in again. That indeed I’m beautiful, tender and loving and worth to be celebrated all day, everyday.

        3. That is a very exposing sharing Floris, I too have felt in the past couple of days how I shrink when the love I express is confirmed and comes back to me. It has posed a question for me to consider, this being, how much am I holding at bay the volume of love I have inside to express when I shrink from letting that love in from another. Could the letting of the love in from another be the key to unlocking more of the volume of love I hold to be?

        4. What a beautiful question Leigh. For me I can feel it has also to day with the fact that I am to accept that I am Love, innately so. When this is confirmed, it’s like I’m exposed that I’ve disconnected from that full acceptance. This is something that is shifting, I can so much more honestly see these last weeks how I am the one choosing to deny the Love in all kind of different forms it shows itself. Especially when I’m observing my daughter and how she’s able to play with life very naturally. I used to judge it, rather than be inspired and join her. It’s amazing how life in so many ways reveals me to me. That it exposes the what is not, by simply reflecting to me the what is… I can either judge or see what holds me back from letting go whatever needs to be let go and join the Love.

     3. We – as a human race – should stop ignoring/denying the emptiness inside when we don’t feel our Soul. It’s quite amazing how many tricks we have to offset the inescapable truth. Appreciation is a very important subject here, as there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with the fact that we’ve chosen to separate from Soul, but surely there’s a responsibility to return to who we are and in choosing so unifying the spirit and Soul so they can joyfully work together to support others to do the same.

     4. ‘We may think we can hide the absence of Soul with makeup and a great hair-do/outfit, but nothing covers emptiness, we are fooling ourselves if we think that.’, very true, Ariana. I never used to wear make up at all, now I enjoy wearing a little, which makes quite a lot of difference as I am extremely fair, so a little goes a long way. However, it’s something I enjoy wearing, for me, when I don’t have enough time to apply any, I don’t feel any less beautiful, even if others choose to perceive me that way, that’s their choice.

     5. I love these words Ariana “we would be hot off the starting blocks every morning with the love that we all are”. True Appreciation, so without any agenda, just felt Appreciation, is indeed the Greatest ‘thing’ we can give to each other. As in fact we’re recognising the Love we are all from in somebody else. Appreciation as a science in which we develop not only others, but also others in honouring who we are, rather than what we do. And as we’re not used to it, the beginnings might not be easy, but hot it will be!

     6. I agree Ariana, if there’s not True foundation to Appreciate from, the Appreciation given to another doesn’t come with Love. It’s also the other way around, if we’re seemling appreciating ourselves, but can’t or don’t appreciate others – what is the True quality of Appreciating oneself. But it starts always with a foundation within us. A foundation on which we relate in a Loving and Appreciative way with the world. Today I’m having a bit of a difficult day and I can see how hard it is for me on days like this to come back to my own Appreciation. I’m learning that even if I don’t feel that well, I’m still worth it to be Appreciated in full as whatever I might feel that isn’t pleasant, it’s not me. Accepting this (slowly) makes a huge difference.

485. Appreciation is key – appreciating our own beauty and recognising that this beauty is one with all others.

486. Very true Katie. Our body has lived all of our choices and showcases them for all to see.

487. “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices. Another beautiful gem from your beautiful blog, Adele, this blog is absolutely full of pure gold. Choices, choices, we have such a huge responsibility in the choices that we all make. When we choose to express our Soul’s light from our inner hearts, we spread enormous light over our world, how could we choose not to do this when the world absolutely aches for this truth. Living this way is so incredibly powerful in the effects on everyone that we interact with in any way.

     1. Very well said Beverley – we ignite the Universe no less.

        1. All of us know that the wrinkles of a very aged woman or man make them no less beautiful, we have all seen incredible photos of eyes and wisdom that attest to that, and yet we are still fooled by the images that promote beauty is about how we look.

        2. True Heather – we are driven by images upon images that are fed to us and we turn to in order to see what we want to see and what the image demands us to perceive all the while absolute beauty is known to us all for we cannot deny the quality we each are at our core.

     2. Well said, Beverley. With the understanding that we all have, thanks to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon, knowing how much light we can all be bringing, it is indeed a huge responsibility to be forever mindful of the choices we are making. It’s very supportive to be reminded of this fact, especially when I’m feeling a little off, to remember that it’s not about me, the world is crying out for some light, a sign that there is another way to live.

488. “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.” You are right, Adele, so right. That certainly brings up the responsibility that we have in the choices we make. When we choose not to live the shining beauty that is within us, then humanity misses out on the great reflection that we can give to all that there is a way to live that shines out brightly from within us, with an amazing beauty that is such a huge contribution to the harmony that can exist in our world. It is up to we who have discovered this way of living to live it constantly, to be the role models that humanity needs so urgently.

     1. The days when I do not feel beautiful are days when I am not connected or coming from my heart. Self-love is the key 💕

        1. A friend of mine was overweight and often ‘felt fat’. Then that person lost weight but still ‘felt fat’. The feeling went away once that person felt and expressed more love. We may often misinterpret feelings.

        2. Could not agree more Vicky, when we connect back to our essence we get to feel and know the innate beauty and truth of who we are. It comes back to connecting to our selves in the most loving of ways and knowing that our essence is who we truly are.

        3. Beautifully put Vicky and something for the world to know and place in their own foundation of everyday life. Self-Love is so very key to all of us I had not appreciated how important this is until recently.

        4. Gorgeous Vicky, the whole world should read your comment!

        5. That needs to be a quote Vicky for all to see and read!

        6. The answer to true beauty. Connecting to the love in our hearts.

        7. I agree, Vicky – it is our connection to our innermost heart that enables us to feel the beauty that is naturally there

        8. This is the same for me Vicky, there is a knowing in me now that if I am not feeling beautiful, that the inside needs tending too. Once this true way of feeling beautiful is confirmed many times, the truth becomes second nature.

        9. When we are choosing to go against the natural harmony in our bodies, there is inevitably a dis-ease, maybe this is what we feel first, then we pick one of the many things that we aren’t, that society has told us we should be, to be beautiful, to explain the unpleasant feeling that is so clearly present in our bodies.
           In truth, we could have simply listened to our bodies, chosen to reconnect to our inner heart and harmony would have been restored, just like that.

        10. When I don’t feel my beauty I know what I have done to me on the inside to affect the way I look and feel on the outside. Sometimes it is things I know I shouldn’t do, like staying up too late or eating the wrong food but more often I notice it when I have become hard on myself or gone into self-judgment. There is nothing sweeter and more beautiful than someone who completely accepts and is at ease with themselves, warts and all (so to speak).

        11. Therefore when in connection with ourselves, there are no situations where we cannot be beautiful.

     2. Insightful example Christoph and confirms that expressed feelings reflect our true relationship with ourselves. Making the choice to love ourselves not live in disregard changes everything,

        1. Yes, and expression is the activation of the sleeping beauty within us all.

     3. Thank you Beverley, you have chosen the exact same quote that I was going to mention after reading your gorgeous article, Adele ….. what you say is so true …. just the other day as I sat in my car I felt very dull, I looked in the mirror and appreciated that I am not at all dull, rather it was just the way I’d chosen to be that morning, even the clothes I had chosen to wear were saying, please don’t look at me, I don’t want to be seen. Rather than feel sorry for myself, as I would have years ago, I simply thought, despite choosing very uninspiring clothes, I can still shine today and be the beautiful woman that I know I am.

        1. Nothing can dull our shine when we hold ourselves in the deep worth and value that we are, despite all the thoughts and doubts that may come in.

     4. And what brilliant, true models there are now .

489. You can easily prove that the way we see beauty is all based on perception. Each day you stand and look at yourself in the mirror, you will more likely than not see your self with different eyes, depending on how you feel about yourself on that given day.

490. I love what you share here Adele, we are all equally beautiful, but it is our responsibility to live and let this beauty out. Our physical appearance does matter as it is a reflection of how we are with ourselves, but it is not about establishing physical parameters for our bodies, but to feel the true beauty emanating out of the body.

491. Presence and quality of a person far outlives physical beauty

492. Adele I love the title of this blog for it shows me yet another saying that I simply accepted without challenging, I know true beauty comes for the power of something living who they are. The love and dedication for themselves is what is most beautifully and something that is not linked to physical form of the body or the perfect nose but a choice of quality of energy. How about a magazine that was about true beauty? Actually Women in Livingness magazine already exists! (http://www.wilmagazine.com/)

493. What you share here Adele about how you felt about your beauty as a woman is a very common experience. But it seems we do not talk about this – about the fact that we examine our bodies with scales and sizes and blemishes being the first thing we see. We don’t talk about whats going on and why we are so insecure and why it is about the physical and not about what is beneath this. So for you to talk about it is a huge start for others to see that beauty is not skin deep, and that there is so much beauty found in who we naturally are.

494. “I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy; when I express in equality, deep tenderness is palpable in my eyes; when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens”, now here are real beauty tips. How amazing would it be for Marie Claire to have a beauty page written by Adele.

     1. Well said Alexis – these are beauty tips that, if applied in our day to day living, are completely life changing.

495. “If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes? Are they puffy and have dark circles or reflecting the clarity that I know? Is my face reflecting my natural joy, and is my skin reflecting vitality?” For as a wise man once told me “when we look in the mirror we see how we feel.” There are days when I find that my make up goes on smoothly and enhances the yumminess that I feel inside – equally there are days when my make up sits lifelessly on my face, a mask for the exhaustion or sadness I have been carrying.

496. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.” Truly this is our responsibility for in this celebration we deliver the world from the poison of jealousy and comparison.

497. Yes, I know this one Mary, having also spent many years of my life ‘allowing other people to decide if I am ‘beautiful’ or not’. A false, viscous, self perpetuating cycle to keep us firmly placed in the illusion of self doubt and unworthiness.
     From personal experience, I am in wholehearted agreement with your endorsement of the changes made possible through the inspiration and support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – without reservation this is the real deal – pure gold and heaven sent
     “I have discovered a deep natural beauty within me that surpasses anything anyone can say about me. It matters naught because I know that what I carry with me on the inside is pure gold and heaven sent”.

     1. I agree whole heartedly Mary and Stephanie.
        Pure gold and heaven sent.. It is truly scary that I lived most of my life without feeling my beauty. I shudder to think where I would have been without the teachings that Serge Benhayon has brought.

498. Awesome Adele. We have most definitely been sold a lie about what beauty actually is. There is nothing more beautiful than the Soul’s light. And it is loving daily choices that help us connect to and express this. Our outer appearance can be a reflection of this not a cover up or a creation of some kind. Let the true beauty shine through!

499. Thank you Adele for presenting this truth so clearly ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body.’ Feeling the power of this is huge and recognising that it is a choice and anyone can reconnect to this at any point takes away the trying to present a perfect picture to the world and instead simply allowing our inner beauty to shine through.

500. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” Gorgeous blog Adele. Feeling beautiful from the inside out is the way to go, regardless of what the media tries to sell us.

501. My beauty is nothing I own, it is coming through me by connecting to my divine service. So I agree, it is not skin deep, it goes much much deeper …and higher! 🙂

502. I agree, our face, our posture, our voice, our body say so much about how we are feeling and how we have been treating ourselves. It is awesome to appreciate the surface layer of this communication and deeply connect with the light expressed within someone’s eyes. The eyes and the body can often share different messages, the disregard and lack of self love on the outside and the shining light of divinity within. When our outer expression is united with our inner truth, there is true inspiration shared for all to enjoy and appreciate.

503. Wow this is gorgeous Adele, thank you for sharing. Similar to what you’ve shared I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on the imperfections of my body that people don’t really see or pay attention to, and this continual criticism means that I have kept myself feeling ‘imperfect’ and not enough, rather than appreciating the great things about myself. Although, things like bloating or other ‘imperfections’ that we focus on can be seen as reflections of how we are living rather than faults, and it’s also important to distinguish between what is a reflection of life and what is only ‘imperfect’ because we are comparing our bodies to exterior images and beliefs of what ‘beauty’ looks like.

504. Science in its fact-based world found we feel beauty is perfect symmetry. It becomes the ruler we measure everything with from bananas to people. Some things are perfect like molecules that make up everything including us, but we at the same time like snowflakes and everyone is different but equally beautiful.

505. Absolutely, our connection with our inner heart, is the key to appreciating the beauty that is within us all and all around us. Nurturing this relationship is our way back to Love. Feeling true beauty is the difference between a thought in your head and a physically embodied living of it, a knowing. We are all equally beautiful in our divinity.

506. I get the sense that when we focus on the outer beauty of ourselves and of eachother, this creates a feeling of rejection of who we are on the inside. And this can actually be felt as a hurt, causing the first and possibly the greatest pain.

507. Whether it is what we eat, how stressed we get, whether we honour what we feel and speak our truth…”If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes? Are they puffy and have dark circles or reflecting the clarity that I know? Is my face reflecting my natural joy, and is my skin reflecting vitality?” The photos I have of myself in my 20’s when I was not caring for myself, look older than the the ones I have had taken recently in my 40’s, because the vitality that is expressed in them. I shine now, I emanate light, vitality, joy it can be felt, the photo is alive with it in a way that older photos where not but rather, they felt dense, flat and withdrawn. Our choices everyday matter.

508. Beauty for me is a feeling more than a seeing, beauty is felt from another when you are willing to feel their essence and the natural light that they express. The more that is expressed the more we can feel but regardless of this we all emanate this light and essence from within, however many layers of ‘stuff’ and issues’ we layer upon it.

509. Adele, I love this, ‘every single person in this world is beautiful. We are all equally beautiful in our essence’, this makes sense to me, it feels so very different to the idea that only people with certain features and body shapes are beautiful as seems to be the accepted idea in society, it is lovely to see the beauty in everyone, if only this were taught by our parents and in schools, that everyone of us is beautiful.

510. The natural beauty is there. It is more difficult to fight this than to allow it to be.

511. This is lovely Adele. More and more I am able to feel the truth of the statement that beauty comes from the inside. When I was young I thought this was something that people said to make unattractive people feel better. These days I can feel the beauty radiating from within and it absolutely heightens any physical appearance. I have had the pleasure of watching my wife go from being very pretty to radiating a stunning beauty which eminates from within and is reflected in her eyes. Of course I am biased, however, I have watched this transformation over the years and seen how it has inspired me and many others around us. Beauty truly does come from the inside.

512. Thank you Adele for you blog. A timely reminder for me that it’s my responsibility to accept and share the beauty I carry inside.

513. “I know how every action, word and thought affects my body and when I express appreciation, my heart expands and my whole face lights up with joy”
     This really resounds with me, Adele. I can feel when i may speak sharply to someone (which is not often now) I can feel the contraction in my body and the smallness feels so dishonouring of me and the other person. There is a lot to ponder in what you have written.

514. So many diamonds in this blog; ‘When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us. What we have chosen is disharmony over the natural harmony within our body’. And that choice is one we have made ourselves at some point which tends to get lost in the uncertain, disconnected, destructive, abusive, chaotic world of disharmony. Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for the ‘unending Way of The Livingness’ which supported me to reconnect to my body and the beauty and light within me.

515. Sometimes I picture a world where we all started coming back looking the same, same hair, same body shape, same skin colour and so the only beauty that was to behold was that which lies within us all. Maybe that’s the only way we will ever achieve true equality for all as we are all judged so much on how we appear.

     1. Love is key – for Love is absolute equalness and beholds all in its light.

     2. I used to think that if we were blind, we could not judge and would have to trust in our bodies and what they were saying to us as there would be no images/pictures to sway us. Our eyes can see but not see when we disconnect from our own truth.

516. We do live in a world that is so focused on outer beauty, and the lengths people go to achieve this so called beauty are spiralling out of control with all the plastic surgery, diets and numerous other unnatural ways of changing our physical appearance to try to fit some sort of ideal that is plastered over billboards and in magazines. True beauty cannot be achieved by unnatural means as it can only come from the inside out.

     1. Well said Kev. Even tattoos are becoming much more popular – all in an effort to achieve a certain exterior image, without consideration of how a tattoo might affect our interior or why we feel that we have to be ‘inked up’ in order to be attractive or accepted in society.

     2. I do agree Kevmchardy, chasing the ideal that outer beauty will make us happy and contented with ourselves and our lives is only momentary at best. I have first hand experience of this as when I was fourteen my parents took me to the doctors because my ears stuck out and they thought that this was the cause of my being unconfident, withdrawn etc. After the operation I was pleased with my new ears but it was not a cure all for lack of self worth I was carrying around.

     3. Absolutely Kevin… True beauty cannot be achieved by unnatural means, as it can only come from the inside out. It’s crazy how far we all get led astray.

     4. So true Kevmchardy- I was shocked to hear about young woman choosing to have labiaplasty because they are comparing themselves to woman shown on porn films and magazines, and some feel pressured by their boyfriends to look a certain way. Breast implants and other cosmetic surgery has become the norm in the society. To what extent does this plastic surgery need to go before someone is questioning what is underneath this need to change our physical appearance, and how can we deal with the actual problem e.g. low selfesteem, self loathing, lack of acceptance?
        Is there any counselling given to those who choose plastic surgery or is money the bottom line?
        Plastic surgery companies offer a service, based on demand. Therefore is it up to all of us to speak out when plastic surgery has gone too far?

517. ‘Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices’. The truth and wisdom in this sentence is felt and something which I have experienced.

518. Such a beautiful blog Adele written from your own acceptance and lived shining light and beauty within which is all encompassing. Gorgeous to read and feel and deeply supportive for all who find their way to this blog. Thank-you.

519. It is very simple to think of beauty as not being a physical appearance but an energetic one. That to be beautiful is something we all are and that connecting to that is determined by how much we discard the what we are not. So we don’t define ourselves as the Doctor, or the office worker, or the plumber or the Mother or Father, Son or Daughter, but instead connect with who we are on a much deeper level. That can be done by something as simple as the Gentle Breath Meditation, breathing gently in and out of the nose. “Beautiful’s” true meaning is far removed from the imposition of looking beautiful that is a constant repressive image we receive from magazines and media. Far better to consider do we feel beautiful, rather than do we look beautiful.

520. That is a great list of dot points Adele. Feels like it would be useful on my mirror as l dress. We can forget to be that attentive to these gorgeous details if we get locked into the grind of a busy, racey life. These points give us a moment to stop and ponder and feel again.

     1. So true Irena, myself being one. reading the points I could feel how including these points in my daily make-up session is part of caring and making myself ready to show my beauty for the day.

521. What you’re sharing here is so true Adele – the beauty that people see shining through us regardless of our physical appearance is coming from how we are feeling about and the loving connection we have to ourselves.

522. I love your blog Adele. True beauty is certain something we all already have, it is just a matter of expressing it. Your blog powerfully dismantles the obsession currently at play that focuses on our outer appearance, what society classifies as beauty is how we look, what we wear, etc. but your blog is reminding us to look within where true beauty resides and choose to cherish, appreciate and express what we already naturally have. Nothing to obtain, to better or to gain, just simply express who we are and our natural beauty just shines through.

     1. I agree Chanly88 – Adele’s blog dismantles the illusion we have fallen for in believing beauty is something we can obtain or improve based on the latest fad, cream or nip and tuck… if we only chose to cherish, appreciated and express who we innately are, we would only see and feel the true beauty we are, regardless of our appearance.

523. You bring back the power of beauty to me Adele, by showing me that it is not about how I dress or have my hair, but instead that it is a reflection of how I am living my life. Do I express in full what I feel there is to express in my body, or do I choose to hold back on this from the images and beliefs I hold? I know the truth of what you present here Adele, as I do experience days I unrestrictedly express the joy that I feel lives within and that joy I can see back in my face, my eyes and in the way I enjoy and move my body. While when I hold back in that expression, my body movements are restricted and my face is showing sorrowed, not really beautiful to see and to reflect to and share with others though.

     1. Nico, to feel your words here, as a woman is so very beautiful. Men the world over have this inside of them for themselves and for us all to experience the grace of a man coming from his beauty.

        1. Indeed Leigh, all men are equally beautiful but that is not how the majority of men conduct themselves. Therefore it is important that I am that reflection and present my self in the glory i am, not to show of to other men, but to inspire and remind them that they are the same and that they equally have that quality deep within.

524. True beauty is undeniably much more than skin deep. When I am deeply connected to my essence, my inner heart I feel my own inner beauty, my delicate fragile female self and am able to see and feel the same in others.

525. ‘We are all beautiful. . . . . . this it is an absolute truth that my body knows.’ Your opening sentence says it all, really, and it will be great when we can all feel the truth of that.

526. “If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes?” Simple questions such as these bring an immediate awareness and responsibility to our way of living. This is beneficial to both ourselves and everyone around us.

     1. I agree Jenny – it is great how a simple question like that can bring an awareness to how we are living, the choices we make and the impact they have on ourselves and everyone else.

527. It’s like we have life the wrong way round. Did we get a mistranslated version of the manual? Did we watch the wrong induction video? For so often we examine life, based on what we can see, without realising the surface is just the fruit of a much bigger tree. This ‘tree’ has its strength and its roots in the energetic flow of life, in this lives and breathes the absolute beauty of us all. When we make it about the style of hair or look of an eye we miss out on the fact we are all birds of a feather underneath. Thank you Adele, for opening the book of beauty here and helping us see there is so much more to us that just what we see.

     1. Joseph, Adele’s writing, had the effect of melting me and now you have added some excellent observations. Those mistranslated instruction manuals and induction video’s have been embraced and perpetuated by the beauty/fashion/music/celebrity industries, as letting people feel that they are unattractive or less if they don’t fit a certain image is a sure fire way to rake in the dollars. The more we connect with and come to trust the truth and beauty within, the less will be their hold.

528. Adele this was truly beautiful to read. My heart opened even more and appreciation for myself and what you shared is flowing in my body, my body feels the harmony and continues to surrender as I sit and write this comment. This feeling is truly beautiful.

     1. Thank you Leigh, surrendering is key for me when it comes to accepting and appreciating the endless beauty I carry inside.

        1. Dear Katinka, every time I choose to surrender, my body melts and reminds me that this is how it wants to move through life.

        2. I keep reminding myself that this is exactly what happens when I surrender: my body relaxes and expands.

529. Thank you Adele for this exposé of beauty. it is possible for everyone to be truly beautiful. The only things holding us back are our choices not to be the love that we are. How wonderful to know deep in our hearts, that we are always beautiful.

530. We all have a slightly different view of what we consider physical beauty is but we need to dig a little deeper to see the truth, and that is, beauty is within and all are born with this. As a baby we have no concept of beauty or what it is, and it is only when we grow up and understand what others are saying that we take on societies perception of physical beauty and start to measure ourselves by this yardstick. No one tells us that we have great inner beauty, as we all do, what a different world if we focused on our true beauty with no comparison involved. Thank you Adele.

531. Thats beautiful Doug, living disconnected from ourselves also disconnects us from the beauty of others and we are left to know people only by their outside behaviours and appearances, rather than their essence.

532. Amazing blog Adele. “when I express honestly and do not hold back, my complexion and skin tone naturally brightens” — this is so true! I feel as if when I let my beauty-full self out, it reflects in my skin tone and physical beauty as well. There is much more to beauty then what is on the outside, in fact it is all to do with the natural beauty on the inside and letting it shine.

533. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born”. So beautifully expressed thank-you Adele, for this true definition of beauty. All by appreciating and allowing ourself to simply be who we are and by not seeking recognition from outside ourself and therefore buying into how we think we should be.

534. The difference between beauty and physical appearance is quite big. Physical appearance can be very attractive without being beautiful. Physical appearance hardly gets noticed when a person expresses their inner beauty in their movements.

     1. So true Christoph – physical beauty can almost be empty if true beauty is not emanating from within.

535. “True beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.” Absolutely Adele our beauty is the essence of our very being from day one. We can hide our true beauty back in the cupboard at times if we choose to close the door or bring the blinds down, but we can always choose to open the blinds and let the light of our essence shimmer forevermore.

     1. Your comment made me realise that the beauty that society praises and celebrates is one filled with comparison and recognition. Whereas true beauty, our inner beauty is impossible to compare because we feel it and it is all equally within every single one of us.

     2. True Kelly – we can shut the blinds believing we are shutting off our beauty but it remains forever for all to see and feel.

536. Shifting the focus from the outer appearance to the inner quality is one of the most profound changes we can make.

     1. Well said Emmadanchin. When we allow ourselves to feel from the inside the beauty that we are the whole world expands.

     2. Absolutely Emma. Focusing all of our attention on our outer appearance can be a huge distraction and way to keep ourselves small, by measuring our worth on how we THINK our body looks in comparison to what society ‘wants’ us to look like. The tables all turn when we start to focus on our inner quality.

537. Beauty is the expression of the loving acceptance we hold ourselves in, our willingness to live with the absoluteness of our knowing and to bring this into expression in our lives. It is this expression that shines through our physical vehicle and truthfully, this is what people compliment us on when they notice us looking pretty in a dress, it is not really the dress itself but the quality in which it was chosen and worn on a body living in this way.

538. Adele, what you are presenting turns the concept of ‘beauty’ as it is commonly defined, right on its head. We all know that we are drawn to people that can hold themselves with the grace and dignity that comes from awareness and an embracing of their strengths and true purpose in life. Their beauty radiates and inspires others – provided the other doesn’t let jealousy and comparison get in the way.

539. Our face tells a whole story – it is like a canvas that we paint based on how we live in every moment.

540. It has taken me a very long time, into my 60s, to acknowledge that yes, I am beautiful. I used to wonder why others could see this beauty but I couldn’t. Then one day my mother shared with me that at aged 9 during a doctor’s visit for an extensive wound on my knee that was not healing, the doctor had looked up at me and said “as you won’t be winning any beauty contests we won’t worry about any scarring”. But now I realise that there was not only obvious scarring on my knee, but extensive scarring to my self worth as his words burrowed deeply and painfully into my delicate 9 year old being shattering any knowing that yes I was beautiful.

     1. Yes you certainly are Ingrid. I love what you shared. Words can scar us deeper than physical wounds when we hold onto them.

        1. Absolutely chanly88. No child of any age should be made to feel less for not being able to be seen for how beautiful they are. People are so sold by the illusion of outer beauty they are unwittingly compliant in perpetuating the lie and causing great harm in the process… whilst denying themselves feeling the truth of what is there to really be seen.

541. “I have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me. Beauty is much more than skin deep” – this is a real show stopper. It exposes that thinking we are ugly is just an indulgence, an avoidance to connect and express our inherent essence, which is beauty. We are constantly bombarded by the images of what beauty should look like, and are told we are not enough, but the choice is always here for us to reclaim what is true.

     1. Thank you for exposing ‘that thinking we are ugly is just an indulgence, an avoidance to connect and express our inherent essence, which is beauty.’ We can choose to focus on self and the narrow perception of how we should look or discard all the ideals and beliefs around physical beauty and reconnect to our essence and shine the beauty of that forth for all to share.

542. We have glorified the body in detriment to our true inner glory.

     1. Doesn’t make good sense – that we have poured countless energy and dollars into acquiring the false version of the True Beauty that we all already have deep within.

543. Our true and timeless beauty is always waiting for us to make movements and choices that allow it its fullness to be claimed and revealed for all to see and feel. Thankyou Adele, you have captured beauty in words and claimed it in your being.

544. Adele I relate to ‘I would obsess on the flaws that no one else could see but myself, and use this as an excuse to hide.’ I too played the hiding game, making my physical flaws the excuse, rather than taking responsibility to show the world the beauty that flows through me when I nurture the beauty that has been bestowed on us all, equally so.

545. For many years it has amazed me how a person who is physically beautiful by general standards cannot feel beautiful and simply emanates an emptiness or coldness. What I find is that it is the animating presence within the person that makes their features adorable.

     1. So true Anne when we cannot accept and appreciate our own beauty inside and out, there is a lack of fullness and the picture is empty of love.

     2. A livingness that cannot be denied – there is a living quality that is godly, divine and absolute beauty.

546. How beautifully you have given expression to true beauty, Adele. I feel that as a society we have externalized beauty as something seen, but as you infer it is in the whole being that beauty is and that beauty when connected to is the beauty of God in the awe that it is.

547. ‘Everything we see on the surface reflects the responsibility we have taken, in expressing the true quality that is within us all equally.’ I love this point Adele. That we reflect on the outside, the choices we make, is huge. We can witness this in ourselves all the time. We are still the same person, but when we are beating ourselves up, or when we have complete disregard for our bodies, the reflection, even physically in the mirror is very different. It’s like we see how we feel and we don’t like it, because if we are not feeling beautiful, then how can we see it.

548. Adele I am always inspired by your blogs as they cut right to the heart of the issue. It is my experience too that ‘true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.’ I feel absolutely gorgeous when filled with joy and expressing with people. Equally on days when I’m distracted or inwardly consumed by some issue which has taken all my attention I feel heavy, ugly and none of my clothes feel right so I will dress to hide and take less care of my appearance. Our physicality reflects how we feel and how we live but beauty has very little to do with conventional ideas of beauty that are portrayed in the media.

549. As the saying goes ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, it is ‘much more than skin deep’. We can look at others physical features and judge yet when we look deeply into anothers eyes and see through all the outer layers they have put on, then only beauty is reflected back.

     1. So Beauty is in connection.

        1. It sure is Sandra. I love how, for example, the deeper my connection with my wife becomes the more beautiful she becomes, not that I thought she could ever be more beautiful.

     2. That saying ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ has recently taken on a new meaning. I held onto the belief that this meant that beauty was whatever the individual perceived to be beautiful, this is open to everyone’s reinterpretation. But as Serge Benhayon has presented love is a beholding expression – to live the love that one is and chooses to be and to allow others to live as they so choose. Often flowers are beautiful as they bloom, what if this was a part of beauty? Allowing another the space to bloom in their own time. It’s not just about an end result, the journey can feel beautiful too.

        1. Well said Leigh, ‘Allowing another the space to bloom in their own time.’ I love it. We all are where we are to learn whatever it is we need to learn, which is divine beauty, where everything has an order, rhythm and sense of magic to it.

        2. The process is definitely a part of the whole and cannot be ignored. And what if the picture of blooming is even let go of, so that there is no picture of a full bloom to adhere to but sinply moving each step as already the deep beautiful flower in whatever process we are in, so our quality simply deepens and so does our beauty.

        3. Thank you Adele for this because as I read this I realise that the image of blooming is a lineal picture, that we start off small and expand and grow. But what if that wasn’t true? Regardless of where a rose is at in how it looks (bud, flower etc) it is still a rose with all the qualities it brings.

550. Defining who we are by our physicality not only does not work, but can be very harmful. I have put on some weight lately and the other day I caught myself saying to myself ” you are fat and unattractive”. You can imagine how this made me feel! Later on that day at work I came back to my gentle breath and I could really feel I was in my body (in the sense of feeling connected to my whole body and not just my thoughts in my head). So thoughts of feeling fat totally disappeared and I was able to express and feel the joy and beauty that I am and feel the equal beauty of others in the room. Thank you so much Adele for this gem of a blog.

551. This is so true ‘true beauty has absolutely nothing to do with how we appear physically.’ and yes people do use their physical beauty to manipulate others which … is not a beautifull thing to do!

     1. Agreed… in falling for the illusion that outer beauty should be championed we have allowed it to have some kind of power over us…. therefore in subscribing to that ideal, it can be used against us for we allow appearances to fool us.

552. ‘If every choice I make is carried on my face and body, could it be the way I am living is affecting my eyes?’ – This is true Adele – the beauty lived can been clearly felt by all others and this is where the responsibility lays with each of us – it is our choice.

553. Wow Adele what a beautiful sharing of the beauty we all are and the shining vitality when we appreciate ourselves and express this,! How simple beauty really is from inside us all and what a honest account of your experiences .An amazing reflection and honouring of our innate inner beauty.

554. Another delicious whole truth delivered by you Adele. This one is exposing that we have been sold a lie about what beauty is and like setting a table in all the finest, you have laid out what true beauty is and how we can live it for all to see. The more we read experiences like this, the more we can realise that there is another way to be with ourselves and it always comes down to us.

555. For me beauty is a feeling thing, not a look. I know that if I feel beautiful then it really doesn’t matter what I look like on the outside and the same applies if I don’t feel beautiful. I can dress up and put the look on so to speak, but if I can’t feel it from the inside then its just a fake image. So its not about the clothes, the makeup or the perfect body or not, its all about the being who is inside and how they are living and moving that makes a person beautiful to me.

     1. I agree Rosie. When we connect to and feel our inner beauty then we feel this same beauty in another.

     2. Yes beauty shines through. But also is it not our responsibility to give true beauty a temporal expression? In this moment I feel I claim it, accept it and appreciate what comes through me and what I so share with all. To find a temporal expression of the enormous beauty we all carry is a confirmation and celebration I feel also responsible for.

556. If I feel tension, anxiousness and I look in the mirror then that is what I see. No make-up or glittery eye-shadow can hide how we truly feel and therefore the quality we emanate. When I feel the beauty and stillness I am from within and celebrate this with every step, I look in the mirror and see this grand beauty shine back at me in all its glory. Beauty in its truth is much more than skin deep, it is the emanation of the divinity we innately are, emanating through the physical body for all to see.

     1. Beautiful Katerina…. true beauty is indeed the emanation of the divinity we innately are and were born as.

     2. Exquisitely expressed, thank you. ‘Beauty in its truth is much more than skin deep, it is the emanation of the divinity we innately are, emanating through the physical body for all to see.’

     3. An emanation of the innate beauty we are through the physical body is far more exquisite than any external aesthetics could ever be.

557. “It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” – I especially love this line! A beautiful reminder of the fact that we are innately beautiful in our essence and so it is about letting this out rather than attaining something that is outside of us.

558. Feeling the true beauty in people as they express from their essence is always appreciated. I know for myself that I can feel a beauty in me when I allow my natural expression to flow, it’s undeniably a true part of me.

559. I know when I am not feeling great, I look in the mirror and don’t like what I see. When I am feeling good I can see the twinkle in my eye, feel a lightness in my step and will give myself a big smile when I look in the mirror. How we are living and feeling is directly related to how we treat ourselves, and beauty is not merely about physical features.

     1. When there are critical thoughts, I would also look into my eyes in the mirror, then appreciation would flood every debilitating thought, as the truth that beholds us all is there.

560. A beautiful read Adele.

561. “when we hold onto the recognition of only our physicality, we are limiting ourselves to truly live our beauty in essence.” I agree Adele, when we judge anyone or anything by its physical outer appearance, we miss out on the beauty and the fullness of what is there to be witnessed.

     1. So true Rosanna, there is so much more of us than meets the eye! True beauty comes from the fullness of who we are and its expression. It is so limiting in the sense of only seeing the physical aspects of third dimensional life.

     2. Absolutely – we have completely missed the whole shebang when we do not connect and from here live.

562. Adele, this is very beautiful to read, ‘Holding myself always in appreciation and understanding?’ This feels so lovely, I know that I am much less critical of myself nowadays, but not always, so it is lovely to feel how important it is to appreciate and understand myself consistently and that this allows my true beauty to shine – this feels so true and is so different to the idea of beauty that we are sold in our society about beauty only being skin deep.

     1. Agree Rebecca and Adele, it is time to claim back the beauty of lived love.

     2. Absolutely Rebecca, holding ourselves in appreciation and understanding, the greatest beauty product I know.

563. ‘True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.’ This beats any beauty tip I have read to date!

     1. I agree Jane – it’s an absolute outstanding winner – shining in full glory!

        1. And it is free for us all to choose! 🙂

564. I love that you relate beauty to an ‘unveiling’ Adele rather than something we have to attain. Beauty-full.

     1. Indeed Jane, so much effort time and money is spent on attaining or maintaining our physical beauty rather than the uncovering and deepening to the inherent beauty of our innermost.

     2. True Jane – beauty is already within us all

565. Reading this I felt some of my ideals and beliefs about what beauty is being scattered which is great. Beauty is not just physical beauty and therefore only possibly being acquired through making our outer looking more beautiful. No, beauty comes from within, how we feel in ourselves and therefore can come out through nurturing this inner beauty. Thank you Adele.

     1. Great comment Lieke. It is interesting to witness that we can not feel so beautiful in ourselves at all yet be seen by another in full to be very very beautiful not just in our looks but our entire way of being. It goes to show no matter how beauty-full we may be seen and held by another to be, it is only felt if we allow ourselves to feel, appreciate and connect with this truth ourselves

        1. Very interesting indeed Joshua. I can see the beauty in every person I meet but what stands out is that it is often not allowed out in full by the persons choices to disregard themselves in many ways, like unhealthy food, smoking or simply not treating themselves with love and care. I know this myself too, if I do not treat myself with the utmost love, care and delicacy and do not appreciate myself, I can look beautiful but I won’t see it in full. True beauty comes only out in full when we nurture and polish it from the inside out by our loving choices.

        2. What’s more, Lieke, is that when someone does not choose to embrace the love they truly are it can actually hurt to feel, as what is expressed through the disregard of the person’s choices towards themselves is equally expressed to all around them. Embracing our love and our beauty is actually part of being truly responsible in society.

        3. Yes great point to add Joshua, we feel everything and therefor it is not selfish to love ourselves and make sure we are taking great care of our bodies in every detail so we are able to express this love and beauty that is innately in us all. For all to enjoy.

566. When we all start claiming and living the beauty that we all are, many businesses would be out of business….

     1. Interesting Mariette, it shows that there is an industry that feeds off people who believe they need to obtain beauty from the outside instead of from within. You cannot sell someone something when they already naturally have it. So, it makes me wonder how far back this goes, industries selling us a picture that beauty needs to be obtained and measured. It is sinister the illusion so many of us have fallen for, I certainly have and waking up from this is so freeing.

        1. yes it is very freeing indeed when you live from a foundation that all beauty comes from inside and the knowing that there is nothing outside of ourselves that can give us that sense of self-worth and deep love for ourselves.

     2. Mariette that’s a great point – that would indeed make lots of businesses redundant.

     3. Very true, and as this would bring us back to our true qualities other businesses will flourish where the connection with and the well-being of the person/client is the focus and never the profit nor the outcome.

567. You take the notion of accepting our own inner beauty to a way deeper consideration – even beyond beauty being about self-responsibility for our choices which are then externally reflected in our skin, our eyes and hair, without the need for any enhancement. It’s your definition of true beauty that’s the showstopper here – that it ‘can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.’ That suggests it first starts with self-acceptance and then becomes about sharing that acceptance of our own innate beauty – being it and reflecting it with others. That really takes beauty to a new level – one that’s for all not just for ourselves and one that comprises way more than just the physical features to include our unique quality.

     1. This is a really important point Cathy, the more we accept and appreciate ourselves just as we are there is a possibility for a deepening of the connection to our innermost and the expression of our unique quality.

     2. Beautifully translated Cathy, “mirror mirror not the wall…..” how could true beauty ever be for self?

568. Adele, I love what you have said here – ‘True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else. It is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.’ – We are indeed all equally beautiful and your blog reminds us all to claim back this beauty and not hide our true selves behind an outer appearance and facade.

     1. I agree… for if we hide and do not show the world the emanation of true beauty, they will continue to believe that the illusion of outer beauty holds some kind of importance.

569. “True beauty.. is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” LOVE IT – though I’m not sure that the cosmetic surgeons would be fans of such wisdom.

     1. Agree Otto this wisdom is Universal and Absolute and a big challenge for everybody who likes reductionism. Only when we claim our divinity we will be able to let go of the physicality that holds us captive in a world that wants us to believe that we are just human beings in physical form.

        1. Yes. But the brilliance of the divine plan is that it is through the physical form that we get to see, feel and evolve the truth. That which we will leave behind is that which we must, for now, give the most attention.

     2. Yes, true Otto…this may not be a popular sentiment among those invested in the notion of bought or invented beauty but “True beauty.. is not so much a quest for us to reach, but an unveiling and expressing of a knowing that has always been there from the day we were born.” is certainly a known Truth.

        1. And yet it is so crystal clear when one observes those that are invested in bought/invented beauty…so easy to see how far they have walked away from their true selves. Which makes it all very scientific: Level of invented beauty is directly proportional to distance walked from self. Level of true beauty is directly proportional to proximity to self.

     3. Many businesses in the current beauty industry are there because we have diverted from living the simplicity and responsibility of beauty from within us. A return to the truth of what beauty is, these businesses would naturally no longer be necessary.

        1. And new business would arise, businesses that encourage self love and the simpleness of going within and healing the hurts that are over shadowing our beauty, letting it be seen and felt again.

     4. “That which we will leave behind is that which we must, for now, give the most attention.”
        Otto, this is so true, the more love understanding and care I give my body, the more beauty I feel from within and see in others around me.

        1. It’s so beautifully designed for us. The body is the most perfect vehicle through which to be taught, stopped, corrected..through which to learn humility, tenderness and the true expression of love and from which to master the deliverance of power and the action of service and purpose. Incredible to claim this when only a few years ago I thought the body was a machine that was there to do what I told it and from get me from birth to death. BOOM! Quite a turn around! All thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and the teachings of Universal Medicine.

        2. Thank you Leigh and Otto. Coming to understand and love the body from a different angle – listening to how it feels from within and deepening a relationship with it, rather than pushing it mercilessly through life with the external as the focus, changes everything. Inner beauty emanates with a totally different natural quality of joy and true vitality which can be felt and seen by all – as Serge Benhayon presents ‘the body is the marker of all truth’ and it has much wisdom to bring to our lives.
           “The body is the most perfect vehicle through which to be taught, stopped, corrected..through which to learn humility, tenderness and the true expression of love and from which to master the deliverance of power and the action of service and purpose”.

     5. It’s an interesting point this Marika. If you look at it from a distance and observe the insanely ginormous amounts of money and energy that are put in to maintaining the illusion that we are not beautiful, thin, round, flat, muscular (or whatever) enough, it is truly astonishing. Look at it very scientifically. A force and effort that gigantic must be pushing against something pretty huge. Is it possible that we do in fact know that we are already amazing and beautiful? Is it possible that this illusion that we are not, is in fact only paper thin – thus requires immense effort to maintain it? Fascinating to consider. If it were true – that we weren’t good enough as we are – then these companies wouldn’t have to spend a penny on advertising and propaganda. My sense is that we all know and feel a great deal more than we are allowing ourselves to see.

570. A most beautiful blog on beauty, thank you Adele. Every word of it brings the grace of true beauty back to us leaving no room for the false ideal that we have made beauty to be.

571. Beautiful Adele. I love how you point out that true beauty comes with responsibility, the more superficial we allow our understanding of beauty to become the more desperate we try to fit this outer image of beauty as we do not feel beauty anymore but only clock it with our eyes.

     1. Well said Esther.

     2. Love what you share here Esther as responsibility is the foundation of living our true grandness and with this comes true understanding for beauty and everything else. Clocking beauty only with our eyes is part of the reductionism we practice on a daily level negating our divine origins and reducing ourselves to human beings. What can you expect from beauty if it is defined only to the physical realm and reduced to a then empty vessel that does not live the light we are?

     3. When we are not responsible, beauty becomes skin deep (if that) and when emanating true responsibility, the innate beauty of all is plain to see and a joy to express and emanate.

     4. Absolutely Esther – we have reduced ourselves through this superficiality to only see it rather than feel it. It is ridiculous what we deny ourselves through choosing to fall for outer glorification.

572. I have learned that my external and physical appearance can change for many reasons and it needs to. I judged myself harshly as well but my true beauty the essence of me is there like constant glow.

     1. I love the constant glow Nicole. I am becoming very aware of parts of my body where the constant glow is not yet allowed by me to be fully there. It really is amazing me that I can feel exactly why, and how persistent these reasons are. Persistent they may be, but not as committed as I am to the constant glow being in my body, in full.

        1. Go Leigh!!! Get that glow on 🙂

     2. I can relate to this at times too Nicole and have found that because it is always there, constantly glowing it is me that is not allowing, or surrendering or bringing in something for me to feel that which is always there.

573. Adele this is an inspiring and powerful bog to read. This sentence brought a deep inner knowing and confirmation of the truth of our true inner beauty – thank you!
     “Our inner hearts carry the Soul’s light and how much of this light is expressed depends on our choices”.

     1. I too felt the power in this sentence. So simply, we are the beauty of our soul. But the choice is ours as to whether we live by it.

574. I’ve found that learning to accept and appreciate my true inner beauty was difficult at first, because I’d set everything up based on recognition etc outside of myself. It’s been a slow journey at times, and challenging at others as I unravel a lifetime of not appreciating my true beauty, but I have to say, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done! And the more I commit to appreciating myself, the more beauty I feel.

     1. I can relate Angela. All the compliments about how I might have looked beautiful on the inside never lasted in taking away a perennial empty feeling I would have… Discovering my inner beauty, exquisite beyond measure means that now I know I am beautiful, I feel beautiful and I can celebrate this every day.

     2. Angela this is really lovely to read as I too have struggled to accept my beauty always wanting outside recognition. How freeing to appreciate the beauty I am without waiting for another’s approval!

     3. I agree Angela. And I have found that it is always something that can deepen through constant appreciation.

575. I’ve found that learning to accept and appreciate my true inner beauty was difficult at first, because I’d set everything up based on recognition etc outside of myself. It’s been a slow journey at times, and challenging at others as I unravel a lifetime of not appreciating my true beauty, but I have to say, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done! And the more I commit to appreciating myself, the more beauty I feel.

     1. I agree Angela, rediscovering my beauty within has been the best thing I have ever done too. Challenges and all, the feeling of living with my beauty is now a platform from which the next challenge is dealt with. The support I feel from this is not easy to put into words.

     2. Yes Angela I feel that committing to appreciating myself more and sharing that with a friend has definitely supported me to feel more beauty.

576. A truly beautiful account of what true beauty is Adele, thank you for the very loving reminder to live the fullness of who we are on the inside… and that it isn’t until every last one of us does so, that we will know the depth and breadth of what true beauty actually is.

     1. Well said Jenny and I wholeheartedly agree “A truly beautiful account of what true beauty is”.

577. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else.” – this indeed would be a beautiful thing to behold, thanks Adele for bringing the depth of beauty to the surface.

     1. To feel our own innate beauty and share this with everyone else is a celebration. The quality of our being-ness affects every other person, our responsibility is to bring beauty to the world.

        1. Indeed, we effect everyone else by our presence and either confirm or deny their own beauty in how we are with ourselves.

        2. Beautifully said Joseph. True responsibility.

578. You have captured the truth of what beauty is absolutely Adele. I am inspired by your dedication to holding the truth of beauty for us all. For have we not all sold out to the limited version of beauty being only skin deep? One must only reflect on a moment where they haven’t accepted and appreciated their physical appearance, have found themselves comparing their looks to someone or something or to even check out or assess another person in this way to realise the extent of our investment in the limited version of what we call beauty. Without people such as yourself Adele who hold true to the meaning of this word we wouldn’t know any different.

579. And the more I develop my relationship with myself, the more beauty I find. It is well orchestrated by our society’s family, education and religious systems that I did not connect too deeply to myself earlier in life. Never too late, and inevitable that we return to the grace and space that we originated from!

     1. I agree that it is never too late to return to our true essence – our exquisite beauty is forever calling us home

     2. Beautifully expressed, Bernadette, and I could not agree with you more. I was brought up when young to believe that I was the plain one in the family. It is awful when people unwittingly help foster these beliefs. I grew up being extremely critical of my looks (from the point of view of others, and society’s measure of beauty). But as you say, it is never too late, and when we truly connect deeply to ourselves, we can come to see just how beautiful we all truly are, this beauty shines brightly from within all of us, it is up to us to choose to live that way from our connection, to shine forth that beauty. It is then, as you expressed so beautifully that ‘we return to the grace and space that we originated from!’

     3. But we let ideals and beliefs about how we should be or look like as woman or man, stop us from honoring and loving ourselves and therefore avoiding to connect to ourselves on a deeper level. Therefore missing our innate beauty that waits within to be lived and expressed. I agree Bernadette no matter what age we have the choice to return.

     4. Without a shadow of doubt Bernadette – it is “never too late” which is awesome and something to be truly appreciated and celebrated.

        1. Yes Tamara, we can never be cast aside, we are all an equal part of the whole without which there is no whole! It’s our choice when we surrender to this truth and cast aside ourselves that which does not accept who we truly are.

580. Thank you Adele. The more I understand and feel my own beauty and tenderness the more I notice it in others. And yes it has nothing to do with what we look like – we are made of absolute beauty and divine expression. It is where we come from so there is no escaping it!

581. Thank you, Adele. When we express our essence our beauty is there for the whole world to enjoy.

     1. I agree Elizabeth, when someone loves themselves and emanates this- there is a beauty and depth there to be enjoyed.

        1. l agree Kristy, we need to start to shift our preoccupation with the outer appearance and allow ourselves to ponder on and reveal our inner ‘essence’.
           What would be possible if we all began to do this?

     2. It is Elizabeth, and no clothes, makeup or anything else externally can change this.

        1. Yes. I’ve often felt that I may wear the same clothes but if I am a little doubtful, hesitant in expressing myself this is felt and invites thoughts of ‘yeah, not a great choice of clothes’. But when I celebrate me and wear the same colour nail varnish or earrings, compliments will be said that confirm the celebration of me, of life, that I wear them in.

           Realising there’s lots more opportunities I could do this!

     3. Indeed Elizabeth when we share the beauty of our innermost with another and the world there is the possibility of joy in the communication.

        1. Yes, jennym, there is most definitely the possibility of joy in the communication and then a natural effect of that is then true expression and inspiration will come from that one moment of reflecting absolute beauty to the world, just being naturally beautiful.

        2. So true Jenny… And that essence is the same in all of us, so when we are inspired by another showing their true beauty there is joy in recognising ourselves, and inspiration to also ‘express our essence’ – which completely wipes out comparison.

     4. This can be beautifully seen on the before and after photos of Universal Medicine students, the transformation is groundbreaking and how the beauty starts shining out of them and transforms everything into a deep beauty is just amazing to see and live. Beauty becomes “borderless” there are no limits to beauty and the physicality is put into its true place, that of a vehicle of divine expression that is just a temporal body and truly shines from he inside out and definitely not the other way around.

     5. And us enjoying the beauty of who we are is an expression than invites another to their essence.

        1. For we are each the many reflectors of each other – Heaven’s mirror when we let our love shine out.

        2. Heavenly Rainbows no less

     6. Yes, it’s really lovely to appreciate this in myself and others.

582. Adele,quite simply glorious and you enabled me to glimpse for the briefest of moments how blindingly beautiful the world will be when we all return to the truth of who we are.

     1. I can’t wait for all the people of the world to recognise and eminate the true beauty that we all hold. The world will be a truly beautiful place then.

     2. I agree Alexis, true colours will once again be restored to a grey world.

        1. ‘True colours will once again be restored to a grey world’, beautifully expressed Lucinda.

     3. Yes I had that too Alexis. Because at the moment the “beauty industry” has the power as we’ve handed it to them, mostly because we’ve not taken responsibility for knowing and living our own beauty as this quote so beautifully shares – “When we do not feel beautiful, it is a choice we have made to not live the shining beauty that is within us”. But when more and more people see through this illusion we’ve created and stop living either within it or in reaction to it, and start connecting to their own beauty, the world will be blindingly beautiful as you say. And the industry will be on its knees – and then has the potential to actually support us as women (and men) and not make us less. I am here to claim my beauty – it is here for all of us to do so.

583. Is beauty temporary?
     Is beauty defined by the person making the call?
     Is beauty different depending where you live in the world?
     Is beauty different depending on which period of history you were born?

     I say no to all of the above.

     As spoken in this blog.
     Beauty is there since the day we are born to the day we pass.
     Beauty is within.
     Beauty timeless.

     1. So beautyFully said Luke, like love itself, true beauty is within and timeless.

        1. Absolutely Luke and Tim – true beauty is timeless and age-old

        2. And ageless and wise.

        3. Timeless and priceless

     2. Beautifully said Luke, beauty is in the expression of our innermost.

     3. That’s so beautiful Luke.
        One of the most beautiful sights l have ever seen and felt is of an elderly lady who has taken the time to do her hair and choose her comfy shoes and pick a suitable dress and cardigan for the coolness of the shopping centre air conditioning. Not too over done, with the make-up, not too much perfume. And there she goes, in all her glory for a spot of shopping.
        The quality of simple grace, unhurriedness, elegance and care and attention to detail is what l find truly beauty-full.

        1. Beautiful Irena, there is a lot to be thank-full for when we open our eyes to the beauty that is around us constantly. On that note .. I used to feel symbols of darkness in things .. now I see symbols of hearts everywhere I go. I put this down to my inner-light that is reigniting. The more I reignite it the more beauty I see.

        2. Gorgeous… very gorgeous.

     4. This is beautiful Luke, true beauty is within and is an emination that is not bound by time, place or physical appearance.

     5. Gorgeous Luke, just as we all are, forever.

     6. Yes, anything else doesn’t make sense. We are all equal in every way. We are all equally beautiful.

584. “True beauty in this world can only be fully realised when every single person celebrates their own innate beauty equally with everyone else”. Now that does feel truly beautiful . Thank you Adele.

585. We are taught to think that only politicians, mighty or rich people can change the world, that fame is a necessary ingredient to publish or sell etc. But what shines forth from our innermost is truly inspiring. It doesn’t need to convince or sell. Everything is expressed with me just being there. This is beauty.

     1. Felix, your first line “We are taught to think that only politicians, mighty or rich people can change the world” gave me a real stop moment and got me considering how so many beliefs have held us back from expressing the amazingness that we are, as who are we to think that we can change the world. I know that changing just one belief about me, in this instance that I am not beautiful to a knowing that I am beautiful, inside and out, has the power to change the world, as from me claiming my beauty there will be a ripple effect that will be felt by others.

        1. Your powerful words are awesome lngrid. Look out world!

        2. I agree, Ingrid, if we remember deeply we find our inner knowing of how beautiful and amazing we are and in bringing this into our way of life we inspire people to remeber as well of who they truly are. This is alchemy and changes lifes and as such our world, because it is a lived truth.

        3. Absolutely, Ingrid, we can be so self-critical about ourselves, we are fed so much rubbish about beauty from the outside world, as a result most of us have a belief that we are not beautiful, can see all the faults, but not see the beauty that we truly are. Even to just look deeply in the mirror at our own eyes, then we must see the truth, we are all truly beautiful, this can turn around our belief that we are lacking in beauty. We are all born beautiful, true beauty comes from within us. It is up to us to connect to this innermost beauty, and let the beauty shine out to the world. As you say, then “there will be a ripple effect that will be felt by others”. More and more of us living like this will have great power in changing the world. We all have this power, it is not only politicians or mighty or rich people who can change the world. There is so much more power in changing people’s inaccurate beliefs. Our eyes show the truth.

        4. Absolutely Ingrid. We are all incredibly powerful in how we live and what we reflect to the world. Choosing to reflect the knowing of this rather than the denial of this gives others the inspiration to do likewise.

        5. By not subscribing to the belief that beauty is on the outside and truly living the beauty felt within… supports other to take the veils of illusion off their sight and truly feel beauty rather than just see it with their eyes, and then begin to live it for themselves.

        6. ” I know that changing just one belief about me, in this instance that I am not beautiful to a knowing that I am beautiful, inside and out, has the power to change the world, as from me claiming my beauty there will be a ripple effect that will be felt by others.”
           Beautifully said Ingrid you hit the nail right on the head with your comment we all have so much power to change the world with the ripple effect of the emanation of our love.

     2. This depth of inspiration is a catalyst for true change that benefits everyone.

        1. Beautifully put Abby and l feel it will be amazing when l finally realise that l “have a responsibility to live the beauty that feels true within me.” l have been my own best kept secret for far too long.

     3. It certainly is Felixshumacher8. This is true beauty and this is true power! All that is required is, as you say, for us to shine forth from our innermost and be our self.

     4. Absolutely felixschumacher8, we all have amazing power and the ability to change the world through connecting with our inner most and allowing the expression of this.

     5. Absolutely Felix this is the true beauty in being, not doing.

     6. Beautifully expressed Felix – ‘what shines forth from our innermost is truly inspiring’. This is without a doubt true and changes far more than we may ever realise.

     7. Great point Felix. This belief is sold to us when we are very young, but the truth is we can, and we do when we start living in connection.

     8. “We are taught to think that only politicians, mighty or rich people can change the world, that fame is a necessary ingredient to publish or sell etc.” It may indeed appear that way to the brain that is looking at the surface ‘beauty’ as Adele has written and life ‘looking good’. However the deepening quality of life, the expansion of relationships, the embracing of true responsibility is only inspired by the inner heart. And all it takes is one truly living in accordance to their Soul to inspire many. We have seen that clearly in Serge Benhayon.

     9. Beautiful words Felix, and it is not only the words, but the truth that is expressed. Nothing can’t be changed. It is just a matter of connecting to our innermost, and indeed what shines out is deeply inspiring to behold, and feel in ourself.

     10. And knowing this is a game-changer.

     11. The movement in the depth of our quality is making true change in every breath we take and in every step we make. The picture you have described Felix of politicians, mighty or rich people are the only ones who can change the world, is ultimately just a picture the world has chosen to hold onto. Moving free from pictures, true change is happening every moment, it moves free from recognition and on par with evolution.

     12. Awe-some Felix! The immense power of the innermost can and will change the World. “To save the world save yourself” Serge Benhayon – which means connect to your innermost and live from there.

586. I do feel that society (TV.magazines – media/fashion etc) as a whole applies with visual persuasive pressure from an early age constantly trying to redefine beauty to somebody else’s interpretation of what they think beauty should look like. I am very aware that children as young as 5 years old having ‘beauty treatments’ at salons paid for by mothers who have invested in ‘looks’ as being a major priority. There is something very special about looking into another’s eyes and feeling that deep connection and recognising that essence of true beauty being reflected. Costs nothing and is priceless.

     1. I asked my daughter how she felt about herself yesterday, she said she feels just right, she loves her body and she loves herself, she is 7. She does shine with vitality, life and light, it is a joy to behold. She knows what the picture of beauty is around her, barbies and disney princess’ and mini adult dolls are all around her and conversations at school talk a lot about what is and who is ‘beautiful’. We have also noticed when we have gone clothes shopping that the styles change greatly as you turn 7 – 8, they become for more adult, more ‘sexy popstar’ and less playful. The sausage machine, setting up young girls and boys to doubt their natural beauty and seek outside remedies begins at a very young age. Knowing that we are enough just as we are is significant, it is something I am returning to and know for myself and something that my daughter has naturally felt since birth. It is wonderful to appreciate that this can be a natural way of being and it is possible to hold and express Self-Love and Appreciation into adulthood.

        1. How wonderful Samantha that your daughter has this knowing of who she is and that this knowing allows her to shine when the light of other girls at that age has already begun to be dimmed from the huge pressures to be someone that they are not. And it is a testament to you to be willing to know and appreciate yourself as a woman which is being reflected back to her, offering a beautiful foundation for the rest of her life.

     2. Yes Marion, true beauty is felt through the eyes and is a reflection of the connection we have with our soul. This a lived and felt true beauty, a beauty that goes beyond the skin.

     3. We need to take it back to really truly connecting or re-connecting with each other and make it about love. Looks are just superficial there is so much more to each and every one of us other than our looks.

     4. What I feel is the true evil of the beauty industry is that the images we are shown on a daily basis are presenting us with being imperfect and having to better ourselves to reach a beauty standard that is defined by media, design and artistic criteria that are lacking the purpose to appreciate and confirm us in our grandness and are dedicated to reduce us to a mere physical appearance that is never good enough. Beauty treatments are a wonderful way to confirm us in our true beauty, but done from the feeling of not being enough they can only confirm this, that we will be never good enough.

        1. Well said rachelandras. From the moment we are born, as Adele has provided an example of, we are conditioned and coerced into thinking we are less than the magnificence we truly are. The true evil here lies in that which seeks to reduce the glory of a Son of God; one who embraces their essence and the life before them with great humbleness and joy, into a barely functioning son of man; one who has forgotten that they are so much more than what the eye can see. In this reduced form we are kept ’little’ by the images we are sold, blind to the beauty and the vastness we each hold deep within.

        2. Many in the ugly incorrectly named beauty industry seek to separate us from our natural beauty. They present images that are completely false and unobtainable so that we are forever striving for and paying to be all that we are not in disconnection from the pure beauty that we all already are at essence.

     5. There are many sayings about the eyes, Marion, including “the eyes are the window to the Soul”. There is certainly something very special about truly looking into another’s eyes, it is incredible the connection we feel when we look deeply into the eyes, we see the huge love and true beauty being reflected, as you say, and it is meltingly beautiful to see and feel. I sense that the eyes being the window to the Soul is just what we are looking into when we look deeply into another’s eyes. A saying that rings true to me and as you say, it “costs nothing and is priceless”. How healing it would be for our chaotic world if we all made a stop each day to look deeply into the eyes of people when we are interacting with each other.

        1. All of this you have written Beverly is ours for just a moment to connect to another and what we experience and feel is something beyond beauty.

     6. Well said – true beauty, the depth, wisdom and agelessness in someone’s eyes, “costs nothing and is priceless”. It can’t be boxed and commercialised either, and everything that the world tells us apparently defines beauty is but a mere and very superficial veneer in comparison.

     7. Marion unfortunately ” trying to redefine beauty to somebody else’s interpretation of what they think beauty should look like.” Is at the whim of a few individuals that deem something to be in or out. Meanwhile many are left trying to conform to that look and the fashion industry have moved on and another look is in. Best find your own unique style and embrace and trust your own interpretation and uniqueness, celebrating and appreciating your own glory from within first, and the rest will flow.

     8. Yes Marion, there is something special about looking into someone’s eyes and feeling that deep connection. It takes away all ideals, beliefs and pictures in that moment. The eyes are the window to the Soul, and, the Soul is made in exact perfection from one to the next. This says a lot about what true beauty is like it has been described in this blog – “We are all beautiful.”

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