Seeing Clearly

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

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.
- Paulo Coelho

There are none so blind as those who will not see.
- John Heywood (also attributed to the later Matthew Henry, and others)
(based on Jeremiah 5:21)

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or what we fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Art of Seeing

What We Perceive

Listen, Really Listen

Pause to Wonder

Observe Life