DOUG WRITES | The Inner Weaknesses

The Inner Weaknesses by Douglas Allen Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that the global beauty industry consisting of skin care, make-up, hair-care products, and perfumes is $95 billion, and is growing at up to 7% a year.  If you figure in the amount spent on cosmetic surgery, diets and weight loss programs, the figure is much higher. Now, don’t get me wrong.  I like to look good.  However, I have been guilty of going above and beyond the call of hygienic duty by purchasing exorbitantly priced creams made by monks in small batches in the monastic mountains.  Counseling myself from the pain and into the comfort and relief found in products that improve chances of finding admiration and love is a natural go-to.  While strengthening the inner is having an upsurge, it is easy to fall back into traditional normalities.  Establishing a more desirable physical presentation of oneself is always in fashion and does not require one to get in touch with what is really bothering them. We are all aware of the ubiquity of the pretty lady syndrome, and now men have been given the permission to pamper and prod and poke in order to more fully realize the occupation with the outer self. This desire to be cloaked in beauty is one of the oversized coats the world has constructed for us.  It is certainly part of our pie chart, but an obsession over looking good didn’t always make me feel good, and this predilection did not leave much time for occupying the space within, which is where an everlasting beauty awaits our consciousness.  Everyone has so much inner knowledge and beauty, and oftentimes it sits inside instead of being assimilated and translated into beautiful gardens for all to savor.  Tragic. “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”  2nd Corinthians 4:16