The Promise Of Beauty And Why It Matters
Hen relationality is healthy W and harmonious-it could be in the form of a flower or a relaxed and happy face, the placement of buildings or just the cleanliness ofa street-beauty is present. When it is not, things appear and feel ugly, and are in fact so when rationally analysed. Most of our problems, environmental, socioeconomic and health, arise out of disharmonies, disproportionalities, imbalances and a lack of synchronisation. In one way or another, ugliness is caused by poor relationality I remember the old aphorisms in Eastern and Western thought which claim that beauty is based on balance, harmony, proportion and rhythm. I wonder if this could be a way of looking at today's problems and to conceive their solutions. After all, everyone has a if we used our instincts for beauty as a guide for living, rejecting what seems ugly and embracing what is beautiful? Especially, if we keep in mind that beauty is about much more than how things look on the surface. Surely, beauty, or its absence, is an undeniable part of our sense of wellness, well-being and rightness. When people grumble about life, I notice they turn to their innate sense of beauty and ugliness and say this or that is ugly or is no longer beautiful. When people say life is not so beautiful any longer, it is Notjust because of how their street, neighbourhood or city looks, which is certainly a part of it, but due to a larger sense of it being’ out of whack'. Just like the human pulse can tell doctors in the Ayurvedicand Chinese a person, i think our sense of beauty can tell us about the state of wellness of things around us. One could even say, as the truth, goodness, beauty triangulation suggests, that beauty is imbued with goodness and truth. That it forms in rightness and wholesomeness, and that our sense or instinct for beauty has this triangulation ingrained in it. This is why things that are not good usually feel ugly, though not always, and the same holds for untruths and dishonesty. This might help explain why many of us are experiencing a growing ugliness in our societies. It is because of the many imbalances and disharmonies, like the filth and pollution in the tree environment, the rise of new diseases such as cancers and immune system malfunctions; the alarming growth of mental disorders such as ttention disorders... Despite risiGDPS (gross domestic product) ardazzlingarray of new technologieare not seeing a commensurate grin human happiness and well-beinEverything in life, at all levels, oand exists inrelationality and beau fundamentally about relational excellence. Each of these four imp qualities-harmony, balance, propaand rhythm-is relational and dynaBalance is a momentarystateof equm ina dynamic flow, not stasis; hais a state of relational excellence wiperpetual change,not a fixed idyllic proportion is contextual, not absolurhythm is,obviously dynamicandflowing. It became clearer that therecannot be any'absolute', permane'timeless beauty as beauty is alwaysubjective, contextual and experien(Abridged from "The Promise ofBeauty & Why It Matters' publishe
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The Promise Of Beauty And Why It Matters
Hen relationality is healthy W and harmonious-it could be in the form of a flower or a relaxed and happy face, the placement of buildings or just the cleanliness ofa street-beauty is present. When it is not, things appear and feel ugly, and are in fact so when rationally analysed. Most of our problems, environmental, socioeconomic and health, arise out of disharmonies, disproportionalities, imbalances and a lack of synchronisation. In one way or another, ugliness is caused by poor relationality I remember the old aphorisms in Eastern and Western thought which claim that beauty is based on balance, harmony, proportion and rhythm. I wonder if this could be a way of looking at today's problems and to conceive their solutions. After all, everyone has a if we used our instincts for beauty as a guide for living, rejecting what seems ugly and embracing what is beautiful? Especially, if we keep in mind that beauty is about much more than how things look on the surface. Surely, beauty, or its absence, is an undeniable part of our sense of wellness, well-being and rightness. When people grumble about life, I notice they turn to their innate sense of beauty and ugliness and say this or that is ugly or is no longer beautiful. When people say life is not so beautiful any longer, it is Notjust because of how their street, neighbourhood or city looks, which is certainly a part of it, but due to a larger sense of it being’ out of whack'. Just like the human pulse can tell doctors in the Ayurvedicand Chinese a person, i think our sense of beauty can tell us about the state of wellness of things around us. One could even say, as the truth, goodness, beauty triangulation suggests, that beauty is imbued with goodness and truth. That it forms in rightness and wholesomeness, and that our sense or instinct for beauty has this triangulation ingrained in it. This is why things that are not good usually feel ugly, though not always, and the same holds for untruths and dishonesty. This might help explain why many of us are experiencing a growing ugliness in our societies. It is because of the many imbalances and disharmonies, like the filth and pollution in the tree environment, the rise of new diseases such as cancers and immune system malfunctions; the alarming growth of mental disorders such as ttention disorders... Despite risiGDPS (gross domestic product) ardazzlingarray of new technologieare not seeing a commensurate grin human happiness and well-beinEverything in life, at all levels, oand exists inrelationality and beau fundamentally about relational excellence. Each of these four imp qualities-harmony, balance, propaand rhythm-is relational and dynaBalance is a momentarystateof equm ina dynamic flow, not stasis; hais a state of relational excellence wiperpetual change,not a fixed idyllic proportion is contextual, not absolurhythm is,obviously dynamicandflowing. It became clearer that therecannot be any'absolute', permane'timeless beauty as beauty is alwaysubjective, contextual and experien(Abridged from "The Promise ofBeauty & Why It Matters' publishe
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Shakti Maira views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Shakti Maira and Speaking Tree and Times of India