Each of us is responsible for how we see, and how we see determines what we see. Seeing is not merely a physical act: the heart of vision is shaped by the state of soul. When the soul is alive to beauty, we begin to see life in a fresh and vital way.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted.
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
Alex Dobrenko` • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats