Beauty
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Beauty
What makes something beautiful? — Schiller & Architecture
youtube.comIt is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Perhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Yohji-san has developed a definition of what’s beautiful that’s his and his alone — that your clothes protect you, sure, but in doing so, they hint at the soul within and insist on your humanness.
Yohji Yamamoto is living on his own terms
His obsession is imperfection. Imbalance.
What’s that smell? It might just be the next big thing in travel.
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if we embrace the beauty of all creation, we find our own beauty magnified. And what is shalom but dignity stretched out like a blanket over the cosmos?