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Is real beauty on the outside or the inside ?
Is real beauty on the outside or the inside?
Beauty is a quality or the deeds that give intense pleasure or satisfaction to you or another person. While your physical appearance like your color, your facial structure, height, hair style, grace and charm constitute your outward beauty, your characteristic qualities like integrity, truthfulness and your originality form your inner beauty.
When you are not satisfied with your outward beauty, you make artificial efforts to improve or enhance it by visiting a beauty parlor and undergoing facial washing and bleaching etc and by having a hair style befitting your personality. Your dressing sense and wearing proper and appropriate attire also plays a vital role in your outward beauty.
When you sustain some injuries and get deep scars on your face due to an accident and look ugly, you can erase the memory of your accident as well as your scars by undergoing cosmetic or plastic surgery and you can regain your beautiful face very quickly but at a heavy cost.
Your good qualities, behavior and mannerisms all combine together to constitute your inner beauty. You have to make conscious efforts by virtue of your attitude to cultivate good qualities like love, affection, honesty, truthfulness, integrity and your originality. Being self-confident, funny, interesting, reliable, respectable and supportive are also helpful to consider you as a person with inner beauty. You are categorized as a good person if you possess the above mentioned qualities predominantly in you. When these qualities are absent and your activities cause mental or physical injuries to others, you are labeled as a bad person and you have no inner beauty.
But the issue that lies before you, where lies the real beauty outside or inside?
Your outward beauty will not last long. It is short-lived, transitory and ephemeral. As you grow in age you will lose your charm and grace. Your muzzles lose their strength.You will have white hair or you will become bald. Your face will have wrinkles. You are not a beautiful person anymore. Whereas your inner qualities that make you a good person will find you in good stead. The qualities that constitute your inner beauty form a part and parcel of your way of living and they are everlasting.
You are judged as a good or bad person not by virtue of your outward beauty but by your noble qualities that constitute your inner beauty. Mahatma was passionately called so for his inner beauty and noble qualities and he was the embodiment of truthfulness. Mother Teresa was considered as a noble soul for her humility and for her real concern for the suffering people, irrespective of their age. Lincoln is adored even now for his inner beauty, for his unflinching devotion to duty towards his country and for his integrity.
Gauthama Bhuddha, Mahaveer,Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohamed, the founders of Bhuddhism, Jainism,Christianity and Islam respectively were all enlightened noble souls and possessed inner beauty.
That is why Lao-Tzu said, ‘He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.’ It is needless to say that all the above mentioned noble souls were enlightened.
Therefore beauty of a person lies inside not outside, because beauty is skin-deep. What really matters is the inner beauty not the outward beauty.
Written by rlingam
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Delicious Paleo Diet Recipes Give You Variety in Your Meals
If you are trying to follow the Paleo diet, you may be going through a transition period. Any time we pick up a new habit-no matter how healthy-we go through a period of trying to adjust to the new behaviors and practices. What can make this period even more challenging is a lack of Paleo diet recipes to follow. In fact, a lack of recipes makes it even more difficult to experience success because you will be less likely to stick with the new lifestyle.
Paleo diet recipes can make the difference between each and every meal time being an exercise in frustration, where you keep asking yourself, ‘What am I going to make to eat?’ while your stomach gnaws at your backbone for sustenance and meal times being an easy, pleasing experience. If you have Paleo diet recipes at your disposal, then you can create a menu for yourself and know what you are going to make for lunch, dinner, and breakfast each day. Tasty recipes will help you to begin to see the benefits of the Paleo diet and that success will inspire you to push through the difficult period of adjustment and stick with the program.
The Paleo diet has many names-the Caveman Diet, the Hunter-Gather Diet-but all those names are synonyms for the same thing, which is a shift in lifestyle that works. When you make the transition to the Paleo diet, you will see an increase in your stamina and your performance. All of the drops in energy, endurance, and performance that you have written off to aging will disappear. You will perform as you never have. Our modern diets are packed with foods that are really no good for us. We eat antinutrients that do little more than make us vulnerable to disease and illness. We feel sluggish and poor because we are not giving our bodies fuel. We are putting toxins into our bodies. Those toxins cause our bodies to run inefficiently. Our bodies are machines and when we improperly fuel our tanks, out bodies respond by running poorly.
If you want to enjoy optimal health, then you have to make changes. You have to rid your diet of the antinutrients and fake food you’ve been eating as a part of the modern diet and begin eating the foods that your body craves. Our bodies crave the foods on the Paleo diet because these are the foods that we were designed to eat. Our bodies will hum like the well-oiled machines they are meant to be. And your body will reward you with its performance, which will be beyond your imagination. If you want to function in ways you never have before, then you will make the shift to the Paleo diet. In order to do that well, you need to arm yourself with resources that make Paleo diet recipes at your disposal. Having a wealth of recipes from which to choose will make changing your lifestyle so much easier. When you see the success of the new lifestyle, you will want to eat this way all the time.
Written by hamby03
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