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Elizabeth Bowen

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."

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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."

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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."

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"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."

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"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."

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"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."

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"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."

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"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."

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"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."

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"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."

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"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."

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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."

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