I hope you guys forgive me, but I just thought of something else to add about beauty... Yes, old topic already, and I hope I don't bore you to death, especially being new to the "neighborhood", but here goes:
What if Beauty is a fundamental Mystery in philosophical/spiritual sense? Something fundamental can't be defined in terms of anything else, so we can't really completely describe it in words, rather all other things are described in terms of fundamentals, ultimately... If this is so, than Beauty cannot be described or defined, only experienced - the definition of a mystical approach.
And what if Beauty only exists in a relationship, much like Love? Can Beauty stand on it's own? Isn't it always a beauty "of"? And doesn't it need an observer to comprehend it, to experience it, in order to exist at all? Is something innately, objectively beautiful, or only subjectively beautiful to a particular observer? I think the latter - in which case it exists only within the relationship between the observer and the observed...
And to take it one step further: in essence, the relationship between the observer and the observed evokes Beauty, but Beauty then, in turn, evolves them both - both are changed. What is happening, in effect, is the process of co-creation.
And, then, is it not possible to think of Beauty as a fundamental creative force?
OK, now I'm straying waaaaay into normally "verbotten" territories. Again, sorry if I bored everyone to tears - like I said, this is something I've been obsessing about for a long time.
