Guess it's my turn to reply as you did.
I've lived that way for most of my adult life. No longer an experiment.
But it is a good exercise, if not a way of life.
Excellent.
If you understand then even a small portion about Beauty, maybe this is a way to begin a small understanding of what RCs feel about the beautiful objects in our Church and faith. (I'm speaking of art; the EO can speak authoratively about Iconography.)
In creating Beauty we are cooperating with God, it is God's Beauty through us - we are instruments of Divine Will, and the Infinite communicating, touching us, through His Beauty - through nature or through the visual arts.
We should not deny or shut down our senses, rather open them up, purify them and use them to know and grow closer in union with the divine.
Thanks for your reply.