Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City.
“Do you think everyone is in a fight between great emotion and little emotion?” That is a question I was asked in one of the classes I attend for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates, taught by Ellen Reiss. And the answer, I’ve learned, is yes. The deepest purpose of every person, Aesthetic Realism shows, is […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
I learned from Aesthetic Realism that a man needs to do all he can to understand his anger in order to be proud of himself. And the main thing we need to understand is that we have two completely different kinds of anger. In his lecture, Aesthetic Realism And Anger, Eli Siegel said: In a […]
With a discussion of the life and work of the great 19th century actor Edwin Forrest. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
Though men may not know it, each of us has a hope to be large, to have big, accurate feeling and comprehensive thought about people and the world. Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, wrote: There is…a great tendency of the self to be as large as it can be, to be as […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City.
In his definitive lecture, “Mind and Importance,” Eli Siegel said: If you are important because you feel that what’s real is important, that other people can be important…then your importance is good…Every time we make ourselves truly important, we are making something besides ourselves important, whether we know it or not. This is utterly different from what […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
Aesthetic Realism taught me that every person’s deepest desire is honestly to like the world different from ourselves. We were born to know and see meaning in people and the things we meet, and when we have this purpose we honestly respect ourselves. We come from the whole world and have its structure in us—”The […]
