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

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

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

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.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.