Your Presence is what creates the difference you want to experience.

One can always find Beauty within the shadows.  When we choose to look for her, she will always be there, just beneath the surface.  It is the Shadow itself that makes it possible to experience Beauty.  The contrast being what makes it possible to experience either.

We can find her in the most mundane, the most unpleasant, the most desperate.  

She is the precious relief of the tears welled up from up the souls depths and mercifully released.  

She is the black feather found upon the earth, shimmering in every possible color,  the morning after all has been lost.  

She is the sheer-joy-smile upon the muddy faced child splashing happily in the puddles while his starving parents beg at the roadside for your spare change.

And when you know, that beauty is in fact always with us, and that there is magic available to you always, no matter what circumstance is currently playing in the movie of your life.  You may find yourself beginning to question what controls your ability to perceive the magnificence of Life, or not.  

And then you may find yourself realizing that it all comes down to the simplest, purest answer.  That if beauty is in fact always here, as is shadow, if joy is always in the scented flower blossoms, and waiting for you in the smile of a dog, the warm wash of the sun on skin, then you realize the only thing that is needed is your awareness of it.  

Beauty and joy and peace and freedom, they are all objects of perception.  And you are the perceiver.  And you get to decide what you want to experience in any given moment.  And all of the sensate bodily feelings that underlie beauty and joy and peace and freedom are actually within your own being.  

And when you understand this you begin to know that you have the power to conjure these feelings at will, within your own body.  And when you can conjure at will you are no longer subject to anything.  And you begin to create and live your life from the states of resource that feel deeply nourishing to you.  Because now you know that when you are in a state of feeling good, and strong, and resourced within, you are far more able to create your vision for your life and work and art in the world.

And when you realize all of this, you start to prioritize skills and techniques and people who support you in getting really, really good at creating those inner resourced states for yourself.