So here I have been outlining how to engage in the Practice of True Beauty. And why. But have you ever wondered what the differences are between a “practice” and a “habit”? A habit is a routine. While it may have begun with intention, it no longer needs thought behind it — it is part … Read More
True Beauty Practice
Disassociating from Beauty
Losing touch… How is it that we get separated from our engagement with True Beauty? How does it happen and what replaces it? One example might be as simple as our eating mode. These days we are so separated from our food sources that children think chickens come from plastic boxes or buckets and spinach … Read More
Ageless Wisdom Practices
Supporting Practices for The Way of Beauty At the risk of sharing “platitudes as insights” as one journalist put it recently, there are three Beauty Practices that are old chestnuts, as my mother used to say. They have been in the culture for a very long time, and certainly have not been identified as “Beauty … Read More
Being Happy – A True Beauty Practice!
Practice the Pursuit of Happiness The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. ~Bertrand Russell Do you see the glass half full or half empty? “Pursuit of Happiness” – it’s in America’s Declaration of Independence, and it … Read More
Bit o’ History — Aestheticism
As I’ve mentioned before, the notion of the importance of Beauty is not new. The Aestheticism movement of the late 1800s in Europe and America caused quite a stir. It posited that beauty was above concepts such as right and wrong. Aestheticism adherents eventually evolved their own brand of elitist hierarchy, however. I say “however” … Read More