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What the world needs are fewer makers, doers, and theorizers and more receivers
D.A. Siedell
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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender.
Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way
C.S. Lewis
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One eye sees, the other feels
P.Klee
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The eye of desire dirties and distorts.
Only when we desire nothing,
only when our gaze becomes pure contemplation,
does the soul of things (which is beauty) open itself to us
H.Hesse
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Seeing creates, seeing unites, and above all seeing goes beyond itself
P. Tillich
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art and religion; longing is their origin
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Symbol, in this sense, is not a “sign” representing some philosophical or religious principle; it is the demonstration of the living qualities of what is
C.T. Rinpoche
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The Keeper of Flocks XXIV
The main thing is knowing how to see,
To know how to see without thinking,
To know how to see when you see,
And not think when you see
Or see when you think.
But this (poor us carrying a clothed soul!),
This takes deep study,
A learning to unlearn
F.Pessoa
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