Seeing Quotes

only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

~ Dan Brown

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Remember that seeing is believing puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

~ Stephen King

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

~ Lynn Austin

Believe this, “the higher you go, the further you see” and also “the further you see the clearer you hear; “the clearer you hear, the wiser you become”!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can pick and refuse. And if you want, you can refuse to know plenty things, don't care how true those things be. I know things you does not know, and things you will never know. And it is sake of that - sake of this knowledge - that people have looked on me and called me old fool or crazy. They treat me like I is retarded. Imagine that. I is the idiot because I know what they don't know.

~ Kei Miller

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?

~ Clarice Lispector

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying attention. Dynamic meditation in everyday existence involves the act of truthfully seeing.Many of us have changed some aspect of our appearance only to have this go unnoticed by friends. Perhaps you’ve shaved off a mustache, added a tattoo, or altered your hairstyle, but your acquaintances failed to initially notice. In such a case, your friends were looking at their environment through the eyes of the past instead of actually seeing what was taking place in the present.

~ H.e. Davey

If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)

~ Swami Satchidananda

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.

~ Donald L. Hicks

The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.

~ Shannon L. Alder

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

~ Melissa Andrea

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

~ Alberto Caeiro

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.

~ Shaikh Ashraf

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense, it is not God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Taking personal responsibility is not about being responsible — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I opened my eyes today to a world that felt alien. For though things resembled the familiar, nothing was the same. Walls I once considered confining, crumbled at the slightest shove. Mountains that for ages had barred my view now faded, transparent. Meandering roads stretched out as straight as an arrow, void of stop signs. Obstacles no longer stood stationary. Pinnacles loomed within reach. Beasts were tame, bullies timid, wagging tongues all tied into knots, and in the palm of my hand glistened the end of a glorious rainbow. It took but a moment to realize that in my newfound sight, everything I’d ever longed for was accessible. Incredibly, the only thing that had really changed was the way I saw the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.

~ Meredith Duran

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

~ J.r. Rim

Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis

~ Vivian Amis

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

~ Scarlett Thomas

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche