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Aesthetic Conscience

Sweet Mother, what is an aesthetic conscience?

It is the consciousness of beauty. Aesthetic means that which
concerns beauty, art. There are people, for example, who move
around in life and see landscapes, see people and things and
have absolutely no sense of whether it is beautiful or not; and
into the bargain, it makes no difference at all to them. They
look at the sky, see whether there are any clouds, whether it
will rain or be clear, for instance; or whether the sun is hot or
the wind cold. But there are others — when they raise their eyes
and look at a beautiful sky, it gives them pleasure, they say,
“Oh! It is fine today, the sunrise is lovely today, the sunset is
beautiful, the clouds have fine shapes. So, the first kind do not
have an aesthetic conscience, the second have.
CWM 7: 179

Let beauty be your constant ideal.
The beauty of the soul
The beauty of sentiments
The beauty of thoughts
The beauty of the action
The beauty in the work
so that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an ex-
pression of pure and harmonious beauty.
And the Divine Help shall always be with you.
CWM 12: 232 The Mother

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