And he answered: People always say: "It's inner beauty that matters, not outer beauty." Well, that's not true. If it were, why would flowers put so much energy into attracting bees? And why would raindrops trans- form themselves into a rainbow when they encounter the sun? Because nature longs for beauty, and is satisfied only when beauty can be exalted. Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows from our eyes. It doesn't matter if person is badly dressed or doesn't conform to our idea of elegance, or even if he isn't concerned about impressing other people. The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect every- thing that seems to be hidden; and, like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them. So if the per-son looking into someone's eyes has a dark soul, he will see only his own ugliness. Beauty is present in all creation, but the dangerous is that, because we human beings are often cut off the Divine Energy, we allow ourselves to be influenced by what other people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think as "pretty," and, little by little, our soul fades, our will weakens, and all the potential we had to make the world a more beautiful place withers away. We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it. Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun. And all because, one day, someone said. "You are ugly." or "She is pretty." With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence, And we become ugly and embittered.Ai that moment, we can draw comfort from so-called wisdom, an accumulation of ideas put together by p ple wishing to define the world instead of respecting the mystery of life. This "wisdom" consists of all the unne esary rules, regulations, and measurements intended to establish a standard of bchavior. According to that false wisdom, we should not be concerned about beauty because it is superficial and ephemeral. That isn't true. All the beings created under the sun, from birds to mountains, from flowers to rivers, reflect the miracle of creation. If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth. Love passes by and says: "I never noticed you before." And our soul responds "Well, pay more attention, because here lam. It took a breeze to blow the dust from your eyes, but now that you have recognized me, don't leave me again, because all of us desire beauty. Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference. Who could imagine a giraffe without its long neck or a cac tus without its spine The irregularity of the mountain