seeing..........................

 

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

immersed....................

 

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay Art

corrupted............................

 

Nowadays in the West we are, quite literally, corrupted by a lust to explain things.  Our lust to explain things veils things. . . . Be true to your eyes, not to the desiderata of science or language.

-John Moriarty, Dreamtime

just for an instant.....................

 

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

-Thoreau

The importance of correct eyewear.......

 

On perspective..................................

      If we don't understand the statistics, we're likely to be badly mistaken about the way the world is.  It is all too easy to convince ourselves that whatever we've seen with our own eyes is the whole truth; it isn't. . . .

      And yet, if we understand only the statistics, we understand little.  We need to be curious about the world we see, hear, touch, and smell as well as the world we can examine through a spreadsheet.

      My second piece of advice, then, its to try to take both perspectives—the worm's eye view as well as the bird's eye view.  They will usually show you something different, and they will sometimes pose a puzzle:  how could both views be true?  That should be the beginning of an investigation.

-Tim Harford, How To Make The World Add Up:  Ten Rules For Thinking Differently About Numbers

Glasses..................

    The year 1900 ushered in a new century as well as an entirely new life for Bucky.  Late in 1899, his nearsightedness was diagnosed, and eyeglasses were prescribed.  Following that momentous transformation, the five-year-old was able to view a new world beyond his wildest dreams.  Prior to receiving glasses, Bucky had believed everyone was confined to the same blurred environment he experience.  So when his sister Leslie described the world as she saw it, he thought he was listening to the output of a fanciful imagination.  With his newly discovered, normal vision Bucky embarked on a journey of outward exploration, questioning, and experimental learning which would continue throughout his life. . . .
     In typical Fuller fashion, he turned his apparent visual problem into a benefit over the years.  Rather than regarding his myopia as a handicap, Bucky considered himself fortunate to be able to remove his glasses at times and consciously shift his attention inward, using his imagination and intuition, rather than his sight for guidance.  At those times, he could effortlessly recall the inner, imaginative environment he had lived within and explored prior to receiving glasses, and that "in-sight" provided him with many of his extraordinary ideas.

-Lloyd Steven Sieden, Buckminster Fuller's Universe:  His Life And Work

Wonder.................................

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.” 


-José Ortega y Gasset

as long as.................................

"Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear."

-Shunryu Suzuki

On correspondence........................

We begin in infancy by establishing correspondence of eyes with eyes.  We recognized that we could do the same things with them.  We went on to the visible motion of the lips - smile answered smile....So far so good.  From here all the wonder grows.  It has been said that recognition in art is all.  Better say correspondence is all.  Mind must convince mind that it can uncurl and wave the same filaments of subtlety, soul convince soul that it can give off the same shimmers of eternity.  At no point would anyone but a brute fool want to break off this correspondence.  It is all there to satisfaction; and it is salutary to live in the fear of its being broken off.

-Robert Frost, from his introduction to E. A. Robinson's 1935 poem, King Jasper

thanks David

Nelson.......................................

"Not a moment should be lost in attacking the enemy....The only consideration in my mind is, how to get at them with the least risk to our ships....The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest measures are the safest."

"Do you know what's shown on board of the Commander-in-Chief?  Why [the signal] to leave off action!  Now damn me if I do!  You know, Foley, I have only one eye, - and I have I right to be blind sometimes.  I really do not see the signal!

-Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson

The time................................................

“The time in your life can go by in the blink of an eye, so look for what lasts a lifetime.” 
-J.R. Rim

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What do you see......................................?

I suspect I've posted this before, but, if I can't remember, you probably won't either.  The source for this is here.  So what do you see?  Two possibilities below:



could be a parrot, more likely its a painted woman.

The eyes have it....................................

Has your attention been stolen........

thanks jonco

The Eye................................

Eyewitness accounts said........................

What?  Oh, never mind............................

Seeing is believing?   Much depends on the angle one is looking from.  From our friends at What is Psychology?