Natalie Goldberg Quotes

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

I think perception is important.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

See into life, don't just look at it.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.