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# Blood & Ink: Thursday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/39/
- Published: 2024-11-07T12:35:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:23.000Z
- Description: enlightened consciousness / beauty & dwelling / task at hand
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

‌“Beauty is the proper dwelling place for an enlightened consciousness.”   
  
– Jordan Peterson, Biblical Lectures

## Re-watching some of JBP’s biblical lectures when he dropped this gem during Q&A at the end of the first lecture…

The question asked why the churches of antiquity were so grand, ornate, and beautiful. I wrote a bit about this in my recent essay on [Cathedral Consciousness](https://seriousplay.substack.com/p/cathedral-consciousness).

But there’s something further I want to point out…

**You, too, have this enlightened consciousness within you. In a very real way, you are this enlightened consciousness.**

You can make every aspect of your life beautiful, a dwelling place suitable for the quality of your character.

- Make your body strong and aesthetic.
- Make your words sharp and poetic.
- Make your clothing clear and dignified.
- Make your smile glowing and radiant.
- Make your movements intentional and purposeful.
- Make your home brilliant and inviting.
- Make your thoughts pure and loving.

**After all, beauty is the proper dwelling place for an enlightened consciousness.** 

You are that.

Make your life beautiful,  
Eric Brown.