To see, or not to see...

What most of us believe vision to be is far less than what it could be. Begin with the challenge of really seeing what's right in front of us, and all around - the physical world .
There is an anonymous prayer which states the problem clearly:

Forgive them, they see not what they look at, hence, they know not what they do.

Many of us, unmindful of our life, see mostly from our past, both recent and not. The more we fill our day, the less we see, even though we seem to be taking it all in, and want to see even more. We see our virtual memories, feel them, think them, and live them more than we realize. We habitually watch & participate in the reruns day after day, never moving from these shadows into the true light of the present moment, by stopping, becoming still, and truly seeing what we look at.

Science has indicated that all seeing is an internal process, that somehow, the energy we contact through our eyes, and perceive as form, is really only coherent inside our mind. It's as though our seeing is more like an intimate tone of visual resonance, struck & sustained only between the seer, and the seen, rather than the myriad of shared outer galleries our lives appear to pass through.

Observation is an act of stillness.