To See

We see with more than our eyes. This is a mystery. We know that even a blind person can see in that larger sense. To see with carefulness and love is a great act of faith.

So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought...

...M E D I T A T I O N

Softening our eyes,
letting them light upon people and things gently,
without hurry,
could we feel their fundamental use as innocent?

Could we try to see without interpretations,
without requirements...

Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris