Inner Sight Quotes

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Vision is the Source and hope of life. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. ‘Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.’ Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Shut your eyes and see.

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

The source of all light is in the eye.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Watching them opens your inner being. Just watching them opens your inner eye and that is the real eye; the outside eyes are of not much use. You are fortunate that you don't have them. You are blessed! Blessed are the blind for they shall not be forced to see this ugly world! And it is really ugly - believe me!

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.