
Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”
Variant translation: Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Quoted in The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany (1996) by Fredrick Berwick and Jürgn Klein, and in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/
undated
Context: Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.
“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”
Source: Challenger Deep
“Your eyes see what your brain expects to see…”
Optical Illusions (2017).
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“My personality is not defined by what you can see with your eyes.”
"Trapped"