John O'Donohue – The Inner Landscape of Beauty
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Importance of Interiority
I feel like in the book i wrote on beauty, i was trying to say that one of the huge confusions in our times is to mistake glamour for beauty. We do live in a culture which is very addicted to the image. And i think that there is always an uncanny symmetry between the way you are inward with yourself, and the way you're outward. When we are putting our ener outward, it's taking something from inside,. That's exactly t i mean, thit'staking something from inside. And we're secretly a debilitating ourselves. I find the aesthetic things like poetry, fiction, good filum, theatre, drama, dance and music actually awaken that interiority within
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