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Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it.

Life is an immense phenomenon, and it is brimming with beauty, with poetry. It surrounds you in myriad forms – in the flowers, in the stars, in the laughter of a child, in the tears of a lover. The whole of existence is a mystery, and that mystery is beautiful. The quote is a beautiful reminder that beauty does not exist in isolation; it is a relational phenomenon. It becomes real in the moment of perception, and your capacity to see it depends on your level of consciousness.

You see, the eyes that look are common, but the eyes that observe, that see, are rare. Most people are filled with their own thoughts, prejudices, and mundane concerns; they are clouded by their incessant internal chatter. If your mind is full of your own noise, how can you witness the silence of beauty? To truly see beauty, you must learn to be silent, be present, and most importantly, be empty. Emptiness is the condition for the possibility of observing beauty.

To expand on this, I would say that not everyone can see beauty not because it is not there, but because they are not there – fully, wholly present. Their presence is partial; they are distracted. The mind is elsewhere, in the past or the future, not in the here and the now where beauty resides, patiently waiting to be recognised, to be felt, and to be experienced.

So, to see this beauty, you must cultivate a meditative mind, a mind that knows how to be in the moment without being a prisoner to its own prejudices. You must become an empty vessel so that the beauty of existence can pour itself into you. Only then will you be able to say, like the mystics and poets through the ages, that everything has beauty. And this will not be a mere intellectual understanding but an actual experience, an irrevocable knowing born out of your very being.