beauty is not enough… we are in a moment where goodness and truth are threatened with being overwhelmed…

For it seems that beauty alone, though it addresses itself to the soul like little else, is not enough to sustain the soul, which requires also goodness and truth. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

taking this to hear, how would one ever act again?… and yet, there is a truth embedded here…

The essential point is that every disclosure is also a concealment. Every closing down of potential into an actuality – itself a necessary, even fruitful step – is by the same token a limiting of reality to what has been selected. If it had not been selected, one might have discovered something immensely larger within that field of potential – now forever narrowed to what it is we think we clearly know. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

What do you think of this idea of imagination…

Imagination is not, as it is sometimes conceived, the capacity to conjure the unreal, but, for the first time, to see the real – the real that is, for reasons of deeply ingrained habit, no longer present to us. … To see is not just to register sense-data, but to see ‘into’ the life of what is seen; and ‘through’ it to the greater picture that lies beyond it, is implicit in it, and makes sense of it in terms of the totality of experience. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

Truth is emphatically not a free-for-all, a matter of individual whim. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

A commitment to spiritual life necessarily means we embrace the eternal principle that love is all, everything, our true destiny. (bell hooks, All About Love)

…I have begun to doubt the “love is all” proposition, much as I love bell hooks…

Niels Bohr: ‘it is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.’ (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

04 John Coltrane on being the breakthrough creative:

From a post by Maria Popova on Brain Pickings…

Truth is indestructible… History shows (and it’s the same way today) that the innovator is more often than not met with some degree of condemnation; usually according to the degree of his departure from the prevailing modes of expression or what have you. Change is always so hard to accept.¹

… may we all find truths to tell and the courage to tell them regardless of whether those around us are ready to accept them…