We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.