Clean the Lens: A New Way of Understanding Purity of Heart

How spiritual wisdom can help us clear judgment, old hurts, and assumptions—and see life freshly I woke up in love this morning. As long as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of “ideas.” My favorites to contemplate and write about are the virtues—all of them. This morning, it seemed like I’d spent nearly two […]

Patterns

Evidence of cosmic order All evolution is a dance of wholes that separate themselves into parts and parts that join into mutually consistent new wholes. We can see it as a repeating, sequentially spiraling pattern: unity to individuation to competition to conflict to negotiation to resolution to cooperation to new levels of unity and so […]

The Aesthetic Dimensions in Art and Society

Chapter 14: Pattern (The final in this series) Through repetition, patterns create visual harmony, rhythm and order, all of which can contribute to meaning and create a sense of stability and symmetry which is pleasing to the eye. Patterns are apparent in the energy fields within atoms, the immensity of the cosmos and the way […]

XIII. Pattern

Patterns are pervasive. Visually, through repetition, they set up a rhythm that suggests order. We see them in the most fundamental energy fields within the atom, in the immensity of the cosmos, and the way we function, behave and spend our time. Machines, computers, and time itself reveal patterns in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, […]