J. Philip Newell has written a devotionally rich resource on the sacredness of the human body. Here's a passage on how the spiritual practice of listening can help us find beauty, which is another spiritual practice.
"In the early 1990s I spent time with the English Benedictine monk Bede Griffiths at his Indian ashram in Tamil Nadu. One of the themes that characterises much of his teaching is also the title of one of his works, Return to the Centre. He speaks of the way in which we have become distant from ourselves and thus from God at the heart of our being. The return to God is the return to the centre of all life. Bede died in the mid-1990s but he occasionally visits me in my dream life. In one dream he said very simply to me, 'Keep on reading Sleeping Beauty. Keep on reading Sleeping Beauty.' We need to read the deepest text of who we are, listening for the intimations of beauty that issue up from the heart of our being. It is the Beauty that is at the heart of all being.
"The Celtic tradition uses the image of listening for the heartbeat of God. It is derived from the Gospel account of John the Beloved leaning against Jesus at the last supper. The legend is that John thus heard the heartbeat of God. He became an image of listening within all things for the One who is the very beat of life. It is the beat of Beauty without which nothing that is would be."