You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context. . . seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.
Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends. " It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
The seeing have the world in common.
Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition. ' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.
New ways of seeing can disclose new things But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.