For anyone to understand how these terms can be life changing, it is important to understand what they mean. However, I want to stress upfront that these words are so powerful because they aren't restrained to a single meaning and they may mean something different to different people. Ultimately, these words are defined by life; it is the experiences we have that give these words meaning.
But to get started, I will provide a basic definition of Truth, Beauty, and The Good. Just don't forget that your definitions may be different, and they will certainly evolve over time.
But to get started, I will provide a basic definition of Truth, Beauty, and The Good. Just don't forget that your definitions may be different, and they will certainly evolve over time.
Truth is the meaning of life. What do we know? How do we know what we know?
Beauty is the rich life. What is aesthetically pleasing? What phenomenons impact us? How our are perceptions meaningful?
Beauty also:
- Encourages attentiveness (greater awareness overall)
- Moves thoughts from actual to potential reality (greater access to expanse of reality)
- Invokes a desire to beget (life, dance, art)
- Transforms things (Grace makes beauty out of ugly things)
- Incites deliberation (encourages deeper meditation)
- Feel its removal when you feel its loss as a retraction of life.
- Prompts the mind to past and future and to pull the past and the future in relation into the present (think Family History).
- Shares ground with the sacred--induces longing for divine. Longing transforms to questions of Truth and The Good.
The Good is the life of Genuine Happiness. What ethical principles do we hold ourselves to? What makes us happy?
With these definitions in tow, we will be able to explore life in a new and glorious way!
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