To catch sight of the invisible is to sight the relations that buoy us up so that we might bob atop the surface of the world, like figures in a relief.
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Not a leaf repeats itself, we only repeat the word.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
What we see in nature is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
This is the age of spin. The age where nobody knows what the fuck they’re even looking at.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you’re looking for is right in front of you.
Whose eyes never dwell on you and yet pierce you.
A young boy and his grandfather in an old-growth forest of the Pacific Northwest may cast their eyes on the same giant redwood, yet they do not see the same phenomenon. Because of their age difference, it appears one way to the boy, another to his elder. The sky I see today is more or less the same…
There is a meaningful blindness at the very heart of vision.
We all tend to filter the world around us through what we know. So try and go beyond what you already know, fill your mind with the new, nourish it with different interests, open it to the extraordinary.Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.
The present is always invisible because it’s environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone but the artist, the man of integral awareness, is alive in an earlier day.
All observational claims made about the object are made in some perspective or other. Before the seventeenth century, the Milky Way, as part of a commonsense perspective on the world, was perceived using human eyes simply as a broad band of light extending across the night sky. From the perspective…
It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.
When the image is new, the world is new.
That which is ontically closest and well known, is ontologically the farthest and not known at all; and its ontological signification is constantly overlooked.
Humans are trichromats, which is to say, their retinas contain three different types of receptors (called cones for their shape when viewed through a microscope) with three different pigments sensitive to three different ranges of the visible spectrum. These three pigments, conventionally labeled S(…
The things we see with the aid of a microscope, for example, are utterly alien, but because they are perceived in a state within which most of us exist most of the time, we can validate them consensually. In the case of a microscope, however, we are dealing with an extension of our senses via hardwa…
To see differently, the desire to see differently for once in this way is no small discipline of the intellect and a preparation for its eventual 'objectivity'— this latter understood not as 'disinterested contemplation' (which is a non-concept and a nonsense), but as the capacity to have all the ar…
For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is n…