Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism have explained something completely new about an emotion that troubles people very much—anger. We have two kinds of anger, one makes us strong and the other makes us weak. In The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #188, Mr. Siegel writes: Aesthetic Realism says that a good anger has […]

The question “Can I be strong and kind at once—and do I want to be?” is huge in the life of every man. I wanted to be a kind person, but when push came to shove, I thought being kind was sappy and made you soft.

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 […]

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 […]

Through my study of Aesthetic Realism I’ve seen that we have two different ways of trying to be powerful. In his book Self and World, Eli Siegel writes: “Aesthetic Realism sees the largest purpose of every human being as the liking of the world on an honest basis.” This purpose, I learned, represents our true […]