“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin https://t.co/ycMGVfzDEj
As the poet and essayist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal in 1851, “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Diana M. Raab • Writers and Their Notebooks
The world can only see us as we see ourselves.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
There is such an intimate connection between the way we look at things and what we actually discover. If you can learn to look at your self and your life in a gentle, creative and adventurous way, you will be eternally surprised at what you find.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Your mind is the lens through which you perceive the world.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
All perception is metaphor—as Wittgenstein put it, we never merely see, we always “see as.”
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
The world as it presents itself to us is a mental construction.