The Stages of Beauty

You are not getting older, you are transcending stages of beauty.

The Japanese concept of Yūgen encompasses an appreciation of the depths of the universe. Beauty is understood as ever-changing as it progresses from the nascent "wabi" or budding stage, into full bloom, actually seen as more one dimensional since the sharp lines of temporal perfection show no hint of past nor future. Ultimately, the aging process culminates in "sabi" the ripening of the fruit.

The Yūgen is more apparent to the trained observer when in the wabi-sabi stages.

It is then the depth of life is felt, when the transitions add to the charms and more than one dimension of life can be seen.