S3E2: Beauty: Desire Made Manifest

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If desire is the fuel in the tank, then where is it taking us? Yes, our longing is to be deeply, fully known. But our desire is only just beginning to get our attention. For before you know it, from watching children to watching sunsets we soon discover that our ultimate longings are directed to find their home in nothing short of beauty. We begin by making things, and the number of things we want to make is endless. But we aren’t satisfied to make mediocrity. No, we want to create beauty in all of its possible dimensions and in all dimensions of life. Moreover, we will discover in this episode that beauty isn’t a luxury, something we might get to have once we take care of all the other important work of life. No—beauty is something we were—and from God’s point of view, literally—made for. In this episode, Pepper and Curt will explore how our desire to create beauty is not just an add-on, it’s necessary if the life we want is to be realized. This episode is further discussion on chapter 2 of The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson, MD.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kurt Thompson.
0:17.0	And my friend Pepper Sweeney.
0:20.0	We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.
0:26.8	Welcome to our second episode of our third season
0:30.6	of the Being Known Podcast.
0:32.0	I say that and I can't even believe that we're here already.
0:36.4	It's crazy right? And it's been a joy the entire time I tell you.
0:43.2	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:45.9	And I just like we've often so I just so look forward to having you all join us and
0:52.0	I just love recording this with you and having Amy to
0:56.8	well usually I enjoy having Amy around but I mean you know yeah in this season we are
1:09.7	in this season we are looking at Kurt's book which as this season is coming to you, the book has been released, it's the soul of desire,
1:18.0	discovering the neuroscience of longing, beauty, and community, and what we're recommending that you get the book so that you can
1:26.1	sort of follow along with us and as you're listening to the podcast we are
1:31.6	chronologically going through the book and I think it's a
1:36.0	helpful companion to what you'll be reading.
1:39.8	Yeah and so today we're actually, you know, talking about this notion of beauty after last episode talking about desire and exploring this notion that you know our
1:56.7	desire is something that is innate to who we are that we are we are kind of not just creatures of desire, it's not just that it's true about us, but we came into being as a product of God's desire.
2:12.0	God had a desire to create us in beauty and goodness and joy.
2:17.2	And if we are going to image God, if we are going to bear his image, then we also, as image bears, we're going to
2:26.8	express that desire and longing, and today we're going to wade right into where that longing desire actually eventually manifests itself.
2:35.6	We talked a bit last week about this notion of being known, we long to be seen and heard and
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