Beauty
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Beauty
What makes something beautiful? — Schiller & Architecture
youtube.comYohji-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.
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
And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience. It’s something that has to do with how humans react to the world and perceive the world. And it’s notoriously thought to be subjective, but it’s not entirely subjective. There’s a very rich history... See more
On Being • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
