Have you considered why beauty matters to you and others? Even ancient cultures invested in beauty. Baskets were woven to incorporate lovely designs that served no functional purpose. So, beauty seems to matter to humans in some innate way.
I think it please our spirits in a meaningful way. In the book, If Aristotle Ran General Motors, author and philosopher Tom Morris writes, “We all intuitively know that beauty plays a role that can’t be duplicated by anything else in its impact on the human spirit, freeing our greatest energies, liberating our deepest insights, and connecting with our highest affections.”
If you keep your spirit present as you go about making decisions related to beauty, it will help guide you to meaningful beauty. It will also help your inner philosopher ask good questions like, “Will this beauty add to lasting happiness or temporary pleasure?” It might also raise questions of value such as, “This is gorgeous, but it costs an awful lot. Do I want to trade that amount of my life energy for it?”
Meaningful beauty is developed with patience, layer by layer, with patterning, and then a surprise overtakes us. There is some mystery, some meditation, that is sinking into our being, and then shining its light back out. We are changed by the beauty.
Here is a lovely musical and visual display of beauty in motion that Barbara Shipka, a friend of mine, created. Let beauty inspire you.
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