What Are You Seeing?

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 – 1944

Think about that...
The last time you looked at a pile of rocks, did you see the image of a cathedral?  Or anything other than a pile of rocks?  Probably not, and that's too bad.  Have you ever created something out of nothing?  Oh sure, as a kid, you probably did this all the time.  Have you done it recently?  Why not?  

de Saint-Exupery also said “Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

Here's something that you most likely have never given any thought to.  We don't see with our eyes, we see with our brains!  Yes, our eyes allow us to see images, people, things however it's the brain that interprets that for us!  In other words, you can train your eyes/brain to see better things.  You can even retrain your brain to see the same things differently!

The problem then is that way too many people are stuck seeing with their eyes and not their brains.

I'll leave you with one last quote, this from Marcel Proust:
"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."  Have new eyes today.  See the cathedral in the pile of rocks.  Look outward together in the same direction.

Know.  Be Known.  Make A Difference!

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”