You do not see the sun, you are the sun; you do not hear the rain, you are the rain; you do not feel the earth, you are the earth.

－Ken Wilber

 

The progressive revelation of a great, a transcendent, a luminous Reality with the multitudinous relativities of this world that we see and those other worlds that we do not see as means and material, condition and field, this would seem then to be the meaning of the universe,ーsince meaning and aim it has and is neither a purposeless illusion nor a fortuitous accident.

ーSri Aurobindo Ghose

 

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things that I see.

－Simone Weil

 

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,

Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

 

Why should I wish to see God better than this day?

I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,

And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,

Others will punctually come for ever and ever.

ーWalt Whitman

 

When the world which is what-is-seen has been removed, there will be realization of the Self which is the seer.

－Ramana Maharshi

 

The Kingdom of God is present on Earth today, and for ever has been, but only a few, relatively speaking, are aware of its signs and manifestations.

－Alice A. Bailey

 

Oh my love for the first time in my life my eyes are wide open

Oh my lover for the first time in my life my eyes can see

I see the wind oh I see the trees everything is clear in my heart

I see the clouds oh I see the sky everything is clear in our world

－John Lennon & Yoko Ono

 

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

ーThich Nhat Hanh

 

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

ーGeorgia O'Keeffe

 

A stick of incense is burning on my desk. Is this a trivial affair? An earthquake shakes the earth and the Mt. Fuji topples over. Is this a great event? Yes, so long as the conception of space remains. But are we really living confined within the enclosure called space? Zen could answer at once: "With the burning of the incense-stick the whole 'triloka' burns. Within the Joshu's cup of tea the mermaids are dancing". So long as one is conscious of space and time, Zen will keep the respectable distance from you; your holiday is ill-spent; your sleep is disturbed, and your whole life is a failure.

ーDaisetsu Suzuki

 

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

－William Blake

 

All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder, and a blade of grass a sign of God's perfection.

－A Course in Miracles

 

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