Passage From Jane Eyre: the Beauty of Love-

"Most true it is that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm grim mouth,- all energy, decision, will,- were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me,- that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him: the reader knows I have wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me" (258-259).

The Authentic Person- Is she a Bronze?

An authentic person is basically a bronze item without tarnish. A truly 'authentic' person knows their faults, and bears the marks on the front.

Therefore: a person who is not authentic has no faults. They exist without this tarnish . . . or do they?

I know a couple of people who know their personal 'defects.' They mistake the evidence of these faults for rude marks of their image. What they do not seem to know- is that understanding is their key- it unlocks the door that leads to authenticity. It serves, actually, as  the replacement for it.

How do they not realize that understanding yourself is the same thing? Those who do not realize that they have faults exist without tarnish. Yet, once you polish them, you must find a mark that has been covered for years, behind the layers-

And, did you know? Bronze does not actually exist without marks . . .