The eye is always associated in traditional cultures with light and spiritual perceptions. According to ancient beliefs, the eye was not a passive receiver of light, but rather a source of light.
It is believed that such was the power of the eye that certain creatures would have magical powers in their eyes. It is the case of Medusa in Greek mythology that would petrify anyone that would look at her. In Ancient Ireland, Balor, the king of Fomorians,, would use in the battlefields his bad eye against his enemies. This belief in the bad eye gave rise in many cultures, especially Mediterranean ones, to many amulets supposed to protect people.
The positive connotation of the eye is nevertheless wider and thus the eye is associated with knowledge and by extension with the power of foresight. But the access to this type of vision – that goes beyond the mere appearance of things - is usually achieved by the sacrifice of this very organ. The wise man Tiresias, Apollo’s priest, was blind. The Scandinavian God Odin also gives one of his eyes to the Giant Mimir for knowledge. In Christianity the All Seeing Eye of God is represented inside the sun of a pyramid – which means that God sees all everywhere and always.
Now you take the floor: what do you associate with the eye?
there are many associations i can remember:
the eye of the tiger in lyrics..
the third eye - foresight, intuition and prophecy.
ie: the mind's eye
seeing with the heart.. what is essential is invisible to the eye…
the window to the soul..
there are the eye symbols in Turkish and ancient Egyptian culture..
i sometimes feel that though we have physical eyes, that the world and its living inhabitants perceive and 'see' through a unified eye…
the all-seeing eye of God..
out of all the surgeries, that of the eye is the most difficult for me to comprehend..
and indeed what it means to 'see' clearly ;o)
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Querido Mestre,
BOM DIA!!
Tomo a liberdade de colocar aqui uma frase que Rosa dos Ventos registrou no caminho com Paul:
“…He aqui mi secreto: solo se ve bien con el corazon, lo essencial es invisible a los ojos”
En homenaje a ENRIQUE I. RODRIGUEZ DOMINGUEZ - AGOSTO 2008
Meu amor, meu respeito e minha gratidão sempre.
CA
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what you see is what you get.
my world is wobbly and uncertain.
for 5 long sunny days i haven’t worn my contacts as often when i’m not at the office. For years new glasses are on my shopping list, somehow i don’t care to buy any. i have a right to my blurry world, or so i sometimes tell myself, and i take pictures with the camera on manual, i focus until i see the object sharp and later i laugh at the difference between what i saw and what i got.
sharp eyeseight is somehow a virtue. It says something positive about the state of the soul. But what?
My lover asked about the strength of my lenses, -2 and -2.50 i answered, he looked away as if i had a chalknail, - or snot hanging out of my nose, - bad vision is an embaressment, however neat and composed opticians may look in their attempt to sell glasses and as a perfectly normal object.
i am not able to make out the stars at night,
it is impossible to read direction sign,
it’s dangerous to drive a car,
…. and yet i love seing what i do when i’m not adapted to normal vison.
maybe i am a bit wobbly, maybe i am a bit diffuse and i feel at ease, at peace not seeing anything quite clear.
Now what will happen when i change, just imagine me feeling composed and calm for a little longer, what will happen when i don’t doubt so much anymore but secure and solid.
Will that improve my vision?
Or will i feel at odds with the world when i’m having a little holiday?
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Beautiful, Marie-Chirstine, the Teilhard de Chardin’s quote. Thank you. Have a nice Sunday.. afternoon.
LOVE,
Thelma.
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“Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut charcher avec le coeur.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Aimer n’est point nous regarder l’un l’autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction.” Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Ce n’est pas d’un tete a tete ni d’un corps a corps c’est d’un coeur a coeur que nous avons besoin.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Verde, vermelho, azul, amarelo, branco, rosa e laranja, passa a ser tudo negro, sem a visão.
Dos cincos sentidos humanos: visão, audição, tato, olfato e paladar, na minha opinião, a visão é disparada o sentido mais importante do nosso corpo. De tão importante que ela é, a sabedoria popular quando quer demonstrar que algo é absurdamente caro, criou a frase: custa os olhos da cara!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNX1ogf3K8&feature=related
Blue eyes. Μάτια μπλέ! Giannis Parios is singing one of the most erotic songs..
The eye is the organ of sight, ΄Ορασης. We perceive the light through the eyes. We ’see’.. Then the image goes into our mind and soul and .. desire begins.. Then we want to fulfill the desire.. We become ‘obsessed’ and full of enthusiasm and passion.. a dream!! We think about it and ’see’ it with our imagination! It is a desire to be materialized through our imaginative power. A dream to become reality.
Then … a new circle begins.. The endless circle of desires that keeps up bound, chained, in the material World, the world of duality, Plato’s cave.
A glance at Paradise : looking into the eyes of our beloved. ;]
LOVE,
Thelma.
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Maybe the eye is not the mirror of the soul
but the door
to the invisible part of it.
And the only true door
Your soul uses
finding its soulmate
The eyes speak without words
and don´t lie.
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The eyes!The visual contact to our and others souls,which can not hide noone.because the soul is naked!
Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
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cher Maitre,
Des yeux blues qui m’hypnotisent qui je ne pourrai jamais voir en vrai dans ma vie… espoir d’en trouver un autre regard qui m’hypnotisera autant…
Mes yeux qui voient l’horizon de ma vie, avec l’espoir qui ce cirque finalement aurai fin et qui je serai libre de tout cette énergie négative qui le cirque apportée dans ma vie…
MARG,
CA
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