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If we want a new world, we need to listen to what has life.

April 25, 2022

If we want a new world, we need to learn how to listen to what has life. What does it mean to listen to what has life? Or, we could ask, what does it mean to say something is “alive”? Here is my definition of what is alive: People who are buzzing with gifts to [ Read more … ]

For meaningful change we need the potency of the creative.

April 14, 2022

Artists have always been at the forefront of anything new. Freud confirmed this when he said that no matter where his research led, a poet had already been there ahead of him. When I work with clients, it’s so apparent that deep creativity is not of the head or thinking mind. It comes from an [ Read more … ]

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

March 14, 2022

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 [ Read more … ]

Beauty explains how the universe works.

March 7, 2022

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 [ Read more … ]

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

February 21, 2022

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 [ Read more … ]

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