Luckily or not, the Miss Universe pageant will be held this year in the Israeli city of Eilat. For the first time it is coming to Israel. It has been going on for more than 60 years, but lately it is not really at the heart of the consensus, even though there are 600 million viewers. Some complain that this pageant causes people to relate to women as objects, which is already passé, and it should be canceled. On the other hand, it has several supporters.
Should we hold beauty pageants or should we cancel them? It won't help to forcefully cancel it but adding education will make a difference.
We know that about ourselves, the extent to which we are attracted to external beauty and appearances. The upper force implants this ability in us. Therefore, it is necessary to give each and every one of us, as well as to all of us together, a specific education, one of greater values. Even though external beauty is appealing, we should be attracted to inner beauty. Education should encourage us to want to discover and belong to such inner beauty.
What is inner beauty? It is bestowal, love, and a broad heart. Anyone who can make room within to accept others and help them has inner beauty.
Looking at the Bible, one finds many descriptions of female beauty and how women are pretty and beautiful. Ever wonder why was it so urgent for the writers of the Bible to instill in us the concept that a woman has to be gorgeous and perfect?
It is because a woman is the parallel of the general desire of the world. Our entire world is a desire and the woman is the center of the desire. Thus, each of us has to correct the woman within. That desire within is the measure by which we are drawn to help others and to connect everyone into one big desire which is entirely about mutual bestowal.
Any person, regardless of their gender, has both the male and female foundation in them. The female force exists in every part of creation, which is the desire that the person has to direct toward love, giving, and the broadening of the heart.
That desire, however, is broken to begin with. Everything starts the other way around: I think about myself, I love myself, and I care for myself. In other words, there is the female force within us that is not that pretty, so to speak, and we have to beautify it.
Just imagine: What would our world be like if each of us could find this inner woman within and invert it from an ugly creature that thinks only about itself to one with an open and loving heart? You can bet that the world would become more beautiful. That is how we will become: with an open heart and wanting to connect to everyone and for everyone to be connected to each other. Beauty is giving, love, and bestowal. Beauty is that which comes from a person to the benefit of others.