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Manifest Beauty in the Body

... instil into the being this instinct, this sense of true beauty,
a supreme beauty which will gradually act on the cells and
make the body capable of expressing beauty. This is still a thing
which is not known: the body is infinitely more plastic than you
believe. You must have surely noticed (perhaps very vaguely)
that those who live in an inner peace, in an inner beauty, a light,
and perfect goodwill, have an expression which is not quite the
same as of people who live in bad thoughts, in the lower part
of their nature. When the human being is at his best, above his
base animality, he reflects something which is not there when
he lives in a state of beastiality.
If one tried to change one’s form out of egoism or that fa-
mous thing, vanity, naturally, one would not succeed, for it is
something deeper which has the power to act; but if one could
refrain from having at all times bad will, wicked thoughts, one
would see a kind of harmony beginning to express itself gradu-
ally in the forms and features, for it is a fact that the body ex-
presses the inner states.
But you forget one thing. If you have in the whole day five
or six hours of higher consciousness, you feel that it is already
much, and the rest of the time you live more or less like a little
animal, you let yourself go, you are driven by circumstances.
And you forget completely to approach the Thing which is
above, which can prevent you from descending into the lower
regions of your nature.
CWM 4: 55 The Mother

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