Two things have occurred recently that brings me to the page today: March being Women’s History Month and the Smithsonian Museum of American History contacting me about my role in that history. Really?! Well, yes — but it is so very nice to have the Smithsonian recognize it! “…the sports bra revolutionized women’s sports more … Read More
Author: Lisa Lindahl
Not New, Just All Important Now…
I wish I could say that this notion of Beauty as an applied philosophy and daily practice was my brainchild. I can’t. True Beauty, as a society’s central tenet, is not new, just ancient and mostly forgotten now. I am ringing the bell. What The Way of Beauty, as I put it forth, is … Read More
Practicing True Beauty in Everyday Life – Compassion
Beauty Practice: Practice Feeling Compassion Compassion is specifically about the ability to feel another’s experience of suffering. This Beauty practice is purposely not expressed as “practice being compassionate,” as I don’t know if one can be compassionate until one has really felt compassion on a somewhat regular basis. Can one routinely choose a behavior or … Read More
Cultivating Awe
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. … Read More
Practice Seeing
This first and basic Practice of True Beauty might best be titled “Practice Perceiving,” but I got into a, er, discussion with one of my professors about the differences between “sensing” and “perceiving,” and in the end, I just left this Beauty Practice titled “Seeing.” Seeing is a metaphor for all senses, both of the … Read More