Awe Quotes - Page 9

• Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

  John Heywood

  Music, Nature, Silence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Meditation, Vision

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• Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Angel, Simple

  Max Lucado (2010). “God Came Near Deluxe Edition”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.

  Henry Sloane Coffin

  Needs, Worship, Characteristics

  Henry Sloane Coffin (1946). “The Public Worship of God”

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• Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sight, Offending, Names

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2042, Bible Study Steps

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• It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

  William Barrett

  Inspirational, Life, Elude Us

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• Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Perception, Vision

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

  Herman Melville

  Eye, Soul, Vision

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• Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Adventure, Vision, Five Senses

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• We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.

  James Turrell

  Sweet, Light, Order

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• Subject is known by what she sees.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Vision, Subjects, Seeing

  Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

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• We are a landscape of all we have seen.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Inspirational, Life, Garden

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• It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Blue, Sky, People

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.65, Vintage

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• What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

  Robert Creeley

  Inspirational, Vision, World

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.364, Univ of California Press

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• The principal person in a picture is light.

  Edouard Manet

  Light, Vision, Persons

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• At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Vision, Peers

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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• Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Work, Eye, Giving

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• Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

  George Carlin

  Mean, Opposites, Vision

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• Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists along side the other colors of a rainbow, and "blueness" itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Blue, Color

  "The Spectrum of Consciousness". Book by Ken Wilber, 1993.

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• Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Eye, Technology, Long

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• The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the microscopist? Here is my opinion. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to Think with the eyes and see with the brain. Deep revelations into the nature of living things continue to travel on beams of light.

  Daniel Mazia

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

  Alan McGlashan

  Dark, Order, Vision

  Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.31, Daimon

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• Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Men, Vision

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.363

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• One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Vision, Looks

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• Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Flower, Taken

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