Vision is more than sight — it’s the gentle courage to see beneath the surface and imagine what’s possible. May these reflections open the eye behind the eyes. ✨

“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.” ~ Ruth Benedict

“When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.” ~ Confucius

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” ~ Blaise Pascal

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ~ Jonathan Swift

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land, seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.” ~ Beatrix Potter

“Seeing is not always believing.” ~ Rod Serling

“It might be good to open our eyes and see.” ~ Thomas Merton

“At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.” ~ Ugo Betti

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.” ~ James Augustine

“This is the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.” ~ Alexandra Stoddard, Open Your Eyes

“Close both eyes to see with the other eye.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi

“Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.” ~ Seneca

“The whole of life lies in the verb, seeing.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.” ~ John C. Maxwell, The Law of Buy‑In