In my travels on the Way of True Beauty I have, of course, come across some wise and pithy statements about beauty, true eternal beauty. Here are some I’d like to share with you: All contemporary crises can be reduced to a crisis about the nature of beauty. ~ John O’Donohue …the perfection of Beauty … Read More
True Beauty Practices
Beauty Practice – Self Acceptance
What could be more appropriate after discussing the authentic self, than the discussion of practicing self-acceptance? Marianne Williamson says: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.” Hmmm. And I very much agree … Read More
Beauty Practice: Authenticity
If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ~ Rabbi Hillel, “The Talmud” Authentic. Authenticity. What the heck does that mean, really. And what does it have to do with True Beauty? Each person is the barometer of his/her own authenticity; … Read More
Practice Being Wary of “The Truth”
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest; but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ~John F. Kennedy, at Yale University, 1962 This is one of my favorite Beauty practices. In part because it has a certain shock factor for some people first hearing of it … 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