- Dorothee Soelle writes about beauty as simplifying our lives and cutting away all the clutter.
- Rabbis Sherwin and Cohen counsel Jews to see their lives as becoming a beautiful work of art that is pleasing to God.
- Leonard Koren explains the understanding of beauty in the Japanese aesthetic of wabi--sabi.
- Sylvia Forges-Ryan and Edward Ryan find beauty in the haiku tradition which emphasizes impermanence.
- Etan Boritzer, in this excerpt from his children's book, affirms the variety of beauty in our multicultural world.
- Patricia Adams Farmer explores the spiritual practice of beauty, and finds it in the hat she loves to wear.
- Oscar Romero hails the church's mission to celebrate the beauty of the image of God in every person.
- Thomas Moore considers some of the many different dimensions of beauty.
- Sam Keen regards the artistry of a trapeze troupe as an effort to create something of fleeting and fragile beauty.
- Matthew Fox celebrates the beauty of the universe and beckons us all to savor its variety and vitality.
- Marianne Williamson challenges women to see beauty as their inner spiritual radiance.
- Ruth Baetz tutors us on finding beauty and energy in nature.
- Edward Hays ponders the beauty in Jesus.
- Kent Nerburn wants us to discover beauty and the divine in all people and all things.
- Kabir and Camille Helminski share three of Rumi's poems on beauty.
- Susan Ross describes how African-American women have tried to make the church a place of beauty by wearing fancy hats.
- Kabir Helminski discusses recognizing beauty as something that draws us into relationship with the Divine.
- Krista Tippett probes how the passion for beauty is at the core of human religious experience.
- Susan Rowland sees beauty in the clearing away of clutter that steals our time and drains our energy.
- J. Ruth Gendler shares her passion for beauty in a rich and thought-provoking essay exploring its breadth and depth.
- Tom Montgomery-Fate cherishes aspects of beauty which we would normally consider unorthodox and far-out.
- Sarah Susanka shares a story of her love for a beautiful dish when she was a young girl.
- Elizabeth Johnson reveals many different ways the Hispanic community acknowledges and honors beauty.
- Richard Foster heralds simplicity as that which enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
- Omid Safi writes about Muhammad seeing women as providing the connection between beauty and the spiritual domain.
- Piero Ferrucci explains how to make the experience of beauty more likely and more meaningful.
- Rai Nathwani and Kate Voigt present five sacred poets who ponder the different dimensions of beauty.
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