Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

It's important that we regularly reconsider, revise, and expand our practices, as our capabilities and needs evolve, both to strengthen our understanding of them and to promote our awareness of new practices and their conscientious uses.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?