Quality is the path to Beauty

For most people when they look at nature they can get in touch with a certain quality that emanates, whether that’s the huge landscapes and vistas that absorb all our senses, or the individual flower with its intricate design and radiant colour. We have an inbuilt affinity with the quality inherent in the design of nature.

That same quality of design exists in humanity too; it’s part of our DNA. Consider the human body with its many interdependent systems which together produce a vehicle capable of incredible things. Our bodies are a matrix of physical, emotional and mental faculties each of which contain the DNA for a truly magical experience.

As sentient beings, we have the wherewithal in an instant to feel deep joy in the very cells of our body as our brain, heart and body respond to a stimulus that might be as small as a flower or as complex as a piece of beautifully composed music.

The essential quality within the design of humanity however gets overlaid and sometimes completely hidden, by the struggles of everyday living. It’s only with the support of our capacity to love and our ability to activate our will, that we find the deeper qualities within that enable us to see that a so called ‘weed’ is also a beautiful flower when appreciated with a more open heart, and that struggles and conflicts can be a pathway to accessing a deeper quality within us.

When we speak of growth in the world of leadership, let us consider that growth is actually beauty revealing itself through our openness to self-develop, our humility to see that we are not the finished article and our aspiration to discover the even more brilliant jewels that are nestled deep inside us.

When we consider the practice of leadership and its relationship to growth we are increasingly called to define growth as revealing our inner qualities…qualities that will in themselves reveal the beauty in all people, and dare we imagine, the potential beauty at the core of business itself.