I wish I could say that this notion of Beauty as an applied philosophy and daily practice was my brainchild. I can’t. True Beauty as the central tenet of a society is not new, just ancient and mostly forgotten now. I am ringing the bell. What The Way of Beauty as I put … Read More
Practicing True Beauty in Everyday Life – Compassion
Beauty Practice: Practice Feeling Compassion Compassion is specifically about the ability to feel another’s experience of suffering. This Beauty practice is purposely not expressed as “practice being compassionate” as I don’t know if one can be compassionate until one has really felt compassion on a somewhat regular basis. Can one routinely choose a behavior, … Read More
Cultivating Awe
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. … Read More
Practice Seeing
This first and basic Practice of True Beauty might best be titled “Practice Perceiving“, but I got into a, er, discussion with one of my professors about the differences between “sensing” and “perceiving”, and in the end I just left this Beauty Practice titled “Seeing”. Seeing is really a metaphor for all sensings, both of … Read More
To Practice Beauty in Everyday Life – the start
So how does one embody (a current buzzword) True Beauty? As I became more and more convinced of the all-pervasive importance of deep, True Beauty I began thinking about this. One day I sat down at my computer and the answer(s) just flowed out of me. It was if they were channeled. There are 18 … Read More
The Way of Beauty Blog in Review
I started this blog just last September (2014). I hope I’ve made a few salient points, and entertained a bit along the way. I started off by making the distinction that The Way of Beauty — book, blog and actual practice — is about COSMOLOGY NOT COSMETOLOGY! You all suffered through my Manifesto for True … Read More