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Jan 2023
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What beautiful thing are you meant to cr...

MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS
About this episode

Question of the day:

What beautiful thing are you meant to create?

The quote from this episode:

Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life. - John O Donohue

The book mentioned in this episode:

https://g.co/kgs/jBB4Jg

The podcast episode mentioned in this episode:

https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty/

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