The Little I know;
It’s time for you to know a bit more.
Every thing a person sees makes a roshem, a mark on his/her being, spiritually and physically. While I don’t have the “magazines” and booklets of gedolim etc. I do have some picures of Tzadikim who we revere. The Gemarah says of one tzaddik the reason he excelled more than his peers is because he countenanced Rabbeinu Hakadosh from the back. ???? ????? ????? ?? ????? is for real. Looking at a holy person with intent to absorb Kedusha indeed works, and is the very reason for that adage.
It’s when people make a mocking of it, pay attention to externals or side effects rather than the ikkur, or when it brings to macklokes (i.e. which Tzaddik is greater etc) that brings the mitigates the effect.
Just as we can readily understand how looking and gazing at “unclean” and base object drags a person the the bottom.. so to (and ???? ???? ?????) does gazing at holy people, holy object lift and elevate a person. Sometimes it will go unnoticed a while, in the long run it works. It’s ???, a natural force, same as the aforementioned one, only to a bigger degree.
By all accounts, get a super sized picture of the Chofetz Chaim on your dining room wall. Stare at it every time you dine… you’ll end up more holy. You’ll do mitzvohs differently. You’ll be more careful from aveiros. You’ll speak lashon hara much less.. guaranteed!! (and that’s a campaign promise)