BEAUTY
VOLUME 35 NUMBER 4 WINTER 2010–2011
6 BEAUTY REDEEMED Trebbe Johnson
Enter a world of beauty, ugliness, and unexpected transformation
14 THE RICKSHAW DRIVER Nipun Mehta
An act of kindness reveals beauties of the heart
18 ON BEAUTY Brian English
A Portfolio
24 THE BEAUTIFUL MIND
A conversation with meditation teacher Gina Sharpe
32 THE ZEITGEIST OF BEAUTY Olivier Bernier
Is beauty only in the beholder's eye? A noted historian weighs in
44 SURVIVAL OF THE INTERESTING David Rothenberg
The surprising evolution of beauty and desire
51 DISTANT BEAUTY Richard Whittaker
Glimpses of . . . celestial beauty?
59 THIS RUINED HOUSE Joyce Kornblatt
In praise of the worn, the aged, the “un-beautiful”
66 TIFERET Gilla Nissan
Beauty in the realm of the divine
72 IS NOT BEAUTY ITS OWN REWARD? Patrick Laude
Beauty and the sacred
86 A REVERENCE FOR THE DIVINE
A conversation with visionary philosopher Peter Kingsley
98 ANOTHER VISION Jeanne de Salzmann
"I seek what I am, to be what I am"
POETRY: THREE NEW POEMS BY MARY OLIVER
56 I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE
57 AFTER I FALL DOWN THE STAIRS AT THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
58 AND BOB DYLAN TOO
ARCS
84 BEAUTY IN ALL THINGS
EPICYCLES
38 THE NIGHTINGALE Hans Christian Andersen/Fairy Tale
Retold by Diane Wolkstein
80 THE VERSES OF THE THERI AMBAPALI Ambapali/Buddhist
Translated and retold with commentary by Margo McLoughlin
TANGENT
98 A GEOMETRICAL VIEW OF THE CRUCIFIX Richard Jagacinski
How to think and live outside the box
Book REVIEWS
106 MYSTERY CULTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Hugh Bowden | reviewed by Richard Smoley
110 THE CASE FOR GOD
Karen Armstrong | reviewed by Bill Williams
114 A STORY WAITING TO PIERCE YOU
Peter Kingsley | reviewed by Thomas Moore
119 FREEING THE BODY, FREEING THE MIND
Edited by Michael Stone | reviewed by Alexandra Yurkovsky
121 ELEGANT FAILURE
Richard Shrobe | reviewed by Patty de Llosa
128 ENDPOINT
