Psychology Book - When Beauty Saves Us

Learning to look around us to meet ourselvesWhen beauty – of a landscape, a melody, a painting, a face… – seizes us, we recognize the unique sensation that it gives us but we do not necessarily measure its importance. HAS the quest for beauty, we generally prefer the quest for success, power, happiness, pleasure, friendship or love.Yet, Charles Pépin asserts here, the pleasure that beauty gives us is never superficial: it helps us to know ourselves better, to dare to be what we are, to welcome the mystery of existence.Combining the thoughts of great philosophers, the work of artists from yesterday and today, and also drawing on his personal experience, he shows that beauty allows us to regain our freedom to judge, to develop our ability to listen, helps us to surpass ourselves and to trust ourselves.Beauty is more than a spectacle: it helps us live more intensely