True, how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
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I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks.
Don’t you ever get taken that way? When I can’t see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn’t help much.
To learn to see – to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
