A Pause For Beauty
Beauty, imperfection and endless mystery.
What is the pattern which connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose, and all of them to me and me to you?
- Gregory Bateson
Unlike other collectors, most Tea masters prefer the incomplete; they look for slight scars or irregularities of form. If carried to excess, this desire will, of course, become unhealthy, but that there is a close relation between beauty and deformation cannot be denied. Beauty dislikes being captive to perfection. That which is profound never lends itself to logical explanation: it involves endless mystery.
- Soetsu Yanagi, The Unknown Craftsman, A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
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A revised draft of one of the more important chapters of my upcoming book,
What is your objective?
What is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
the latest draft of the entire book:
Creating A Life Worth Living:
The Gentle Arts Of Living And Creating On Your Own Terms
There will be many revisions prior to publication, projected for November.