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Steven Weiner, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Can music tell us anything about the questions of our lives? For example—about how we’re for people and also against them? Are the opposites of For and Against central to both life and art? And in order to be kind, do we have to make them one? In other… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Women are often terrifically unsure of themselves as they think about love—and they don’t understand why. Aesthetic Realism consultants Margot Carpenter, Carol Driscoll, and Devorah Tarrow—the trio The Three Persons—will speak about the one purpose in being close to someone which will make a… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The Understanding Marriage! class of Saturday, September 10th, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, will be a wonderfully practical event conducted by Aesthetic Realism consultants, including Barbara Allen and Anne Fielding: “Longed for in Marriage: The Oneness of Encouragement & Criticism.” The basis is this explanation by Eli Siegel, founder… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Can we learn from art the most important things about ourselves—what we want to go after, and what we hope for? And can people make sense of how they’re both sure and unsure? Read “‘Do You Want to Be Like Music?‘”—the magnificent new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Everyone wants to feel proud—but what gets in the way? Consultants Bennett Cooperman, Robert Murphy, and Arnold Perey will show, with cultural scope, down-to-earth immediacy, logic, and humor: Aesthetic Realism explains what will make us truly proud–and also what in ourselves interferes. With instances… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Why are people suspicious of each other—even people who are very close to each other, who feel they love each other? How can we feel we deserve to be trusted in the deepest sense? What makes us distrust ourselves? Is there a criterion for trust—a criterion… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Though wives and husbands have meals together, go places with each other, and share the same bed, often there are thoughts and feelings kept to oneself. “He won’t understand,” a wife can think; or, “If I tell him this, it’ll upset him or we’ll have a fight.” Meanwhile, there’s… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: What does it mean to be truly confident? What mistakes do contemporary women—and men too—make about confidence, mistakes that actually have them feel less confident, more unsure of themselves? That’s what Aesthetic Realism consultant Devorah Tarrow, and associates Sally Ross and Marion Fennell will explain at this thrilling… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband John Stern. She says: When I was growing up in Brooklyn, every summer our family went to Brighton Beach, along with thousands of other people, to relax and have a good time. Yet as I looked at those men and women,… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Many a wife has been troubled by the way she can be ill-natured, sarcastic, disgruntled, including with the man she promised to love and cherish forever. The Understanding Marriage! class on Saturday, July 9th will be about a fight every woman has, which Aesthetic Realism makes honest, thrilling sense… Read more

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