We live only to discover beauty.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. ~ Kahlil Gibran
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Dr. Kim Hermanson helps creatives, pioneers, and seekers break free from linear thinking and access a deeper, more expansive intelligence through metaphor. An educator and adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, she guides people into the mind’s third space—an untapped field of profound beauty and knowing. Learn more at MetaphorMind Lab.
Leonardo da Vinci’s outstanding merit is to have shown by his own example that the pursuit of beauty and the pursuit of truth are not…
Nearly everyone I know right now seems to be “waiting.” We’re waiting for decisions to be made—waiting for leaders to act, for resolutions to come,…
The artist Paul Reynard wrote: “A work of art is necessarily incomplete. It is a way of learning.” We’re all in this process of art-making,…
One of my favorite art quotes comes from the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. In The Aesthetic Dimension, he writes: “Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to…
I LOVE this writing from Ursula Le Guin. It so beautifully explores the concept of home as something deeper than a physical place or familial…
My current muse is this painting by Tsuguhara Foujita (1886-1968), a Japanese artist who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western-style paintings. There’s something that’s really…