Real beauty

A friend shared her concern about discovering a couple of gray hairs on her head which she plucked out.  She groaned when I assured her more will appear.  But when I asked if she would really like to live through puberty/adolescence again,  her reply was a  resounding ABSOLUTELY NOT!”

Youth has a lot to offer, of course, but so does the experience of age.
And real living,  with or without gray hair, comes from making a contribution to life.

Indeed, this is one of life’s paradoxes.   No matter one’s chronological age, when a person fixates on his or her physical appearance,  the body loses some of its beauty.  But when we use the body as an instrument given to us so we can serve others –”forgetting self” in the process  – the body glows with a special beauty and light.

The Thought for the Day is today’s entry from Eknath Easwaran’s Words to Live By. (Copyright 1999 and 2005 by The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.)