Seeing with New Eyes
Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills.
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend
~ Czeslaw Milosz ~
(from “Love” in New And Collected Poems 1931-2001)
Invitation: “Without knowing it …”
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From a distance, we
can see more than too zoomed in.
Context perspective.
"For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills. A bird and a tree say to him: Friend." Czeslaw Milosz.
To recognize our place in the world -- "only one thing among many" -- encourages perspective and interconnectedness, the web of life, and our responsibility to look after each other, nature and all other creatures.