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Unfamiliar Heaven
In a world where soul is neglected, beauty is placed last on its list of priorities. In the intellect-orientated curricula of our schools, for instance, science and maths are considered important studies, because they allow further advances in technology. If there is a slash in funding, the arts are the first to go, even before athletics. The clear implication is that the arts are dispensable, shows that we don’t understand the importance of giving the soul what it needs.
The soul is nurtured by beauty. What food is to the body, arresting, complex, images are to the soul. If we have a psychology rooted in a medical view of human behaviour and emotional life, then the primary value will be health. But if our idea of psychology is based on the soul, then the goal of our therapeutic efforts will be beauty.
I will go as far as to say that if we lack beauty in our lives, we will probably suffer familiar disturbances in the soul-depression, paranoia, meaningless, and addiction….
~ Thomas Moore
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Your nervous system will always choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven.
~ From Jim Rigby
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We had a beautiful life in France and when we left in an emergency, we tried to keep what had beauty for us, all the art, almost all the books, our…
