Most of my spiritual breakthroughs have been against my will. I am mortal, impermanent, imperfect, scared, often uptight and even petty, but wow, what a beautiful sunset.*
Anne Lamott

There’s no shortage in today’s world of wicked problems wrapped around beautiful questions – meaning that somewhere deep inside that thorny issue, embedded at the core lies an undiscovered question of great value.**
Warren Berger

Is perfect always beautiful?
Is beautiful always perfect?
If I had to choose one over the other –
Except for things like planes and everyone
who keeps them in the air –
I would probably choose beauty,
Maybe because it offers an
old wicked problem like me some
hope – that is a form of energy waiting to be
converted
into a different energy:
To hope is a state of being. 
It is an inner readiness,
that of intense but not-yet-spent
activeness.^ –
To find the beautiful question, then,
Lying at the centre
of each one of us.

*Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything;
**Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question;
^Erich Fromm’s The Revolution of Hope.