beauty

A focus on beauty will replenish you, enhance your work, and keep you awake.

When Dostoevsky said, “Beauty will save the world,” he didn’t mean surface beauty. He meant poetic beauty. Or as James Hillman said: “the way in which the Gods touch our senses, reach the heart and attract us into life.” THAT kind of beauty will save the world. No matter what you do, focusing on beauty…

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Beauty explains how the universe works.

Albert Einstein sought beauty in his scientific theories. For Einstein, a theory should not only be useful but also elegant. A beautiful theory was one that could explain something complex in a simple and graceful way. (He said, “when the solution is simple, God is answering.”) Einstein was convinced that beauty was a guiding principle…

“Beauty is the depth at which we see something.”

I once heard someone say, “Beauty is the depth at which we see something.” What does that statement mean for you? Does it have any relevance for teaching, leading a group, or working with a client? What does it mean to see something at a “deeper” level? I’ve always felt it meant seeing with the…

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Einstein’s guiding principle: “Is this beautiful?”

Many scholars have noted how Einstein sought beauty in his theoretical work. “As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, [Einstein] really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle…

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