I discover vision, not as a “thinking about seeing,” to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.
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Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander’s radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.
Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.
Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting – compared with a successive unfolding in time – and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
