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Varia -- Quotations linked to
Ocular Consciousness and Visual Relations
The real act of discovery consists not
in
finding new lands but in
seeing
with new eyes.
• Marcel Proust
RESPECT <Definition> : (ri-'spekt; Latin)
"
From respicere -- the act of looking back,
regard,
the act of giving particular attention,
consideration,
esteem."
•
Merrium-Webster Dictionary
Respect
is not fear and awe;
it
denotes, in accordance with
the
root of the word (respicere),
the
ability to see a person as (they are),
to
be aware of (their) unique individuality.
•
Erich Fromme, The Art of Loving
The
new physics tells us that an observer
cannot
observe without altering what is seen.
Observer
and observed are interrelated in a
real
and fundamental sense.
•
Gary Zukav, Dancing Wu Li Masters
...if
the veil of maya were lifted from our eyes,
we
should perceive that all life is one,
that
the separation between
one
individual consciousness and another is
mere
appearance.
In
short, 'my true inner being exists
in
every living thing as directly as it
makes
itself known in my
self-consciousness
only to me.'
• Graham Martin, Shadows in the Cave
It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
• Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Where
there is no vision, people perish.
•
Proverbs 29:18
"If
you approach each new person you meet in a
spirit of
adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated
by new channels of thought and
experience
and personality that you encounter."
• Eleanor
Roosevelt
Waking up this morning, I smile, twenty four new
hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each
moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion
•Thich
Nhat Hanh
When
I dare to be powerful, to use
my
strength in the service of my vision,
then
it becomes less and less important
whether
I am afraid.
•
Audre Lorde
"Could
a greater miracle take place than for us
to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
•
Henry David
Thoreau
An
eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
•
Mahatma Ghandi
"Genuine
compassion is based on the rationale
that all human beings have an innate desire to
be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself.
And, just like myself, they have the natural right
to fulfill this fundamental aspiration. On the basis
of
the recognition of this equality and commonality,
you
develop a sense of affinity with others. With
this
as a foundation, you can feel compassion
regardless of whether you view the other person as
a
friend or an enemy. It is based on the other’s fundamental
rights rather than your own mental projection.
Upon this basis, then, you will generate
love and compassion. That’s genuine compassion."
• The 5th Dali Lama
People
smile at you here, like children,
sure
that you will not rebuff them,
that
you will smile back.
And
you do, because you know that
it
will involve nothing.
The
smile, the act, the relationship
is
hung in space, in the immediacy and purity
of
the present;
suspended
on the still point of here and now...
•
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Gift from the Sea
Eyes Above the Horizon...
