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• No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Sunset, Eye

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• I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Eye, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Knowing, Broken

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 23, 2013

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• LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Joy, Miracle

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

  Louis Althusser

  Eye, Dark, Looks

  Louis Althusser, François Matheron (1997). “The spectre of Hegel: early writings”, Verso Books

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• If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Lying, Eye

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• Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

  Pope Pius VI

  Eye, Technology, Magic

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• O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
  Take me and make a little Christ of me.
  If I am anything but thy father's son,
  'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
  Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
  Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Eye, Son

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.12938, e-artnow

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• In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Girl, Queens, Ocean

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.47, Random House

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• In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

  John Dobbin

  Eye, Reality, Brain

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• Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Doctrine, Tools

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.57, Knopf

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• Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Eye, Play, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.

  Michel Leiris

  Love, Dream, Eye

  Michel Leiris (1987). “Nights as day, days as night”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

  Don Marquis

  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Dream, Creativity

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• But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

  Colin Farrell

  Children, Jealous, Kids

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• Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Real, Eye, Men

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2005). “Average Jones”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Fate, Long

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Greatness

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• When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Sweet, Eye, People

  Ralph Hodgson (2004). “The Last Blackbird and Other Poems by Ralph Hodgson”

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Butterfly, Eye

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.271, Everyman's Library

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