The heart of beauty is the beauty of the heart

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The world seems to place a great importance on outer beauty. A beautiful scene in nature; a beautiful looking person; a beautiful musical composition. All of these are examples of outer beauty. My heading shows however that I am thinking here more about something else though: inner beauty. There is beauty within our hearts. If beauty lives in our heart, does it need to show up elsewhere too? "When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else." I recently came across the above quote in an Email sent to me by an acquaintance. It got me to thinking though, is this really totally always fully entirely true? What about the truth of another well known quote, "as above, so below", or this could be re-written as, "as inwardly, so outwardly"? Surely if beauty lives in the heart, it will tend to show up everywhere else as well then, wouldn't it? Can an ugly outer appearance also allow for the possibility of that person carrying inner beauty inside themselves then too, or not then? Beauty is an attribute of love, but so is ugliness. All things are within love, and all things can be used for love by love in you. In this respect then, outer beauty does not always reflect inner love, but inner love always creates an outer shining forth of itself. Physical ugliness is perhaps only ever just skin deep in the eye of the beholder, then. I would say that such ugliness is nothing but an outer mask, depicted to be described in that way by unknowing others. The inner beauty of an outwardly physically ugly person can exist still within their heart, but maybe it can only be seen by other people when the inner beauty is being seen in an unique way too, by them looking past the outer trappings. We can in fact see beauty in all things, and then outer ugliness might then be seen with new eyes then too. Inner ugliness is something else again though. What is inner ugliness? Inner ugliness comes from our living from our minds first, rather than from our hearts first. The only really beautiful way to live is from our hearts, putting them always above our minds.