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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

— Henry David Thoreau  <link>

I dare you to see beauty. And once you see it, it overwhelms you. It’s extraordinary.

— Rick Guidotti, photographer  <link>

The heart wants to hear, see, and know.

The human heart seeks to engage especially in three activities. It wants to hear and be heard, it wants to see and be seen, and it wants to know and be known.

— Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word, Vol. 1.  <link>

Love is the eye and to love is to see.

— Richard of St. Victor  <link>

There is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Note it. Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? Why, heaven and earth shout to you: “God made me!”

— St. Augustine, City of God, 11:22  <link>

He could have placed streetlamps along all the pathways of wisdom, but then there would be no journey. Who would discover the secret passages, the hidden treasures, if all of us homed in straight for our destination?

— Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (via)  <link>

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.

— James Madison (via)  <link>

If I break down the walls, I will be surrounded by the garden.

— Deng Ming-Dao (via)  <link>

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

— Thaddeus Golas  <link>

…the only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

— David Foster Wallace (via)  <link>

A wise man once told me that we are all God in drag. I like that. Sometimes when I’m in a public place or sitting at a stop light, I’ll watch people walking by and I’ll silently say to myself, “He’s God. She’s God. He’s God. She’s God.” Before long I always find myself feeling a warm sense of affinity for these strangers. The experience is even more powerful when I do this while observing a person who is clearly suffering. On occasion I’ll test my little spiritual practice by turning on Fox News. Within minutes I become an atheist.

— Chuck Lorre, Vanity Card #240  <link>

…by virtue of the Creation and, still more, of the Incarnation,
nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  <link>