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...