Our eyes run over the surfaces of things. All they require are a few scattered points, since they can bridge the gap in a flash. They “half see” much more than they see, and they never weigh. They are satisfied with appearances, and for them the world glows and slides by, but lacks substance.
Jacques Lusseyran
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We call seeing a neutral feeling. Yet someone who has lost her sight would give anything to be able to see, and if suddenly she could, she would consider it a miraculous gift. We who have eyes capable of seeing many forms and colors are often unhappy. If we want to practice, we can go out and look at leaves, flowers, children, and clouds, and be happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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I said, “The world is so beautiful. It is really beautiful. Not just the colors and the shapes and the seasons.” I said, “I’m told it took sixty million years to make a human eye from that little cell in the bottom of the ocean that was responding to light.” That is just amazing to me. It’s gorgeous, this world.
Toni Morrison
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We call someone who understands things from just one side a tambankan. This means a “man who carries a board on his shoulder”. Because he carries a big board on his shoulder, he cannot see the other side.
Shunryu Suzuki
Some recluses and brahmins, so called,
Are deeply attached to their own views;
People who only see one side of things
Engage in quarrels and disputes.
Udāna 6.54
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Absolute self-knowledge is, I believe, never a claim of a thoughtful man. The enormous, subjective prejudice that manipulates so broad a field as our memory is only a glimpse of the prejudices and whims that affect our judgments.
The Journals of John Cheever
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What is self-delusional is to imagine that you can tell the truth about yourself, that it merely takes a certain frankness with oneself and a certain boldness in putting things down on paper and revealing them to other people.
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