Beautiful Soul
Beauty is an innate and emotional perception of life's affirmative aspects - vitality, health, fertility, happiness, and goodness - within objects in the perceived world. In its most profound sense, the beauty engenders a sense of positive reflection on the meaning of one's own being within nature. Beauty involves cognition of objects as having a balance and harmony with nature, which elicits in the viewer a sense and experience of attraction, affection, and pleasure. An "object of beauty" is anything in the perceived world which reveals a personally meaningful aspect of "natural beauty".
Religious and moral teachings often focus on the virtue and divinity of beauty, to assert natural beauty as an aspect of a spiritual beauty (i.e. truth) and define all self-centered or materialistic pretensions as based in ignorance. The ancient story of Narcissus for example deals with the distinction between beauty and vanity. In the modern context, the usage of beauty as means to promote an ideology or dogma has been a focus of societal debates which center around issues of prejudice, ethics, and human rights. The usage of beauty for purposes of commercialism is a controversial aspect of the "culture wars," wherein feminism typically claims such usage promotes a dogmatic (ie. "The Beauty Myth") rather than a virtuous understanding of beauty.
The presence of the self in any human context means that beauty is naturally based on its human meaning, wherein human beauty is often the dominant aspect of a greater natural beauty. The opposite of beauty is ugliness -ie. the perceived lack of beauty, which stimulates displeasure and engenders a deeper negative perception of the object.