(be) Benevolution
Beauty
“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us… The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.” ― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Come O Beauty, break open and embolden our hearts.
Beauty is a collection of posts on aesthetic and expansive experiences. Benevolution as art, poetry, travel and emotions catalyzing the synergy of evolution. You will find prose, pictures, poetry, audio and video here.
Recent beauty posts
Marcus Aurelius: adorn yourself with excellencies
Do you have mysterious access to
the deep well of poetry or music?
Can you hold contradictions?
Are you plucky and playful?
Adorn yourself with these excellencies my kinsmen.
A winter solstice tale: finding direction past our limits
This story comes from a recent journey, staring into flames of intention, being awakened by lost truth. To travel soulfully through life means we first move inward to gain insight, then move outward into the world with inspired action. We leave our collective inebriation behind and reveal unconscious understandings that frame how we make sense of our world and around us.
Go deeper: the world awakening or me?
Something woke up within me this last year. Others see it too. A harp in a burnt out bus, a huddle in a Hong Kong street, animal rescue in Australia—many voices speaking of tolerance and hope that will not be silenced by the rowdy few.
sp/ns: simple please, not simplistic
We need cut through but simplistic solutions fail to answer our climate, equity and empowerment emergencies. How about sp/ns—enjoy the videos, audio and gallery below.
Inversnaid: rollrock highroad roaring down
This poem is by Gerard Manly Hopkins, a wordsmith. You listen with all your body and spirit, not just your mind. Enjoy his gorgeous cry for connection and wildness.
Imagination: keys to a quantum leap
Imagine other ways of living. It’s surprisingly hard, delightful and imperative to have stories on how we dealt with our climate emergency, creating enlivening, viable-for-all futures. It’s a quantum change.
Beam and wave: sincerity leading change
Climavores see further—enthusiasm beyond sarcastic criticism, be both authoritative and timid while neither arrogant nor tentative—sincerity with our irony!
Plan B: when I die
First, build a boat. Much smaller than Noah’s
and not in anticipation of an epic flood…
Content
Beauty, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolution’s beauty stories primarily feature pieces that move and break open our hearts. We know our lives, our communties and our world changes through emotional responses. Rarely does logic wholly dictate our actions or values. So our expansive collection features:
- Other places, travel, the cultural insights alonside the dissonance these create.
- Poetry for glimpses into our souls and creating more expansive understandings.
- Our mental agility to hold seemingly mutually incompatible ideas simultaneously.
Click to see: travel, poetry and mental agility examples.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ benevolution
The stories for positive change on this site are across 3 broad categories:
- Beauty – that’s this page! See above for details and stories.
- Benevolutionaries – superstars, accidental heroes, inspiring intellects and everyone between. People breaking boundaries.
- Business – it’s meta-modern baby! Conscious collaborative climate and socially sane business is outcompeting our old modern model.
Background ~ better be…
(be) Benevolution aims to assist our deep longing. We are responding to a pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time and, simultaneously, experiencing an ardent awareness of possibilities. The site, its stories and perspectives are to help our agency and engagement – with the painful and the promising – for practical, ethical flourishing.
Stories from before 2019 are drawn from Kings Catch Fire and Greenmode – some of our previous explorations and engagements in personal, family, species, socitey and global thriving.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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