One eye sees, the other feels. —Paul Klee

 

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People who study anatomy and the development of the eye have shown that the retina is, in fact, the brain: in the development of the embryo, a piece of the brain comes out in front, and long fibers grow back, connecting the eyes to the brain. 

The retina is organized in just the way the brain is organized and, as someone has beautifully put it, “The brain has developed a way to look out upon the world.” The eye is a piece of brain that is touching light, so to speak, on the outside.

—Richard Feynman

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Every single eye is a tiny scrap of the divine mystery. Sight is the precise meeting place of object and thought, it is the pearl that allows the mind to unfurl in the light of the sun.

—Jostein Gaarder

Through a Glass, Darkly

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Try another way of looking.

Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

—Rumi

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