No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
-Elizabeth Bowen
Today's quote is from Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. I love this quote. The world in which we live can certainly seem mysterious, strange, foreign. However, the truth is that what we physically see is necessarily agiven. The tangible phenomena that is light reflecting on the surface of objects and transferred via the aperture of the eye is simply natural. Though how this information is interpreted by the mind is the substance that one believes they "see". Hence, what the mind sees is given its worth by the individual. Okay, that probably sounded very convoluted and complex and may not have provided any insight whatsoever into this brief passage. But I still enjoy this quote regardless and believe it imparts a tiny piece of wisdom.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was born in Dublin and spent much time living in England. She and her mother moved to the neighboring country after her father fell mentally ill in 1907. Bowen's mother subsequently passed away in 1912 and her aunts continued to raise her. Author of many books, Bowen enjoyed writing as she describes about "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off". Her novel The Heat of The Day is considered to be one of the most exemplary descriptions of London during the bombing raids of World War II.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was born in Dublin and spent much time living in England. She and her mother moved to the neighboring country after her father fell mentally ill in 1907. Bowen's mother subsequently passed away in 1912 and her aunts continued to raise her. Author of many books, Bowen enjoyed writing as she describes about "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off". Her novel The Heat of The Day is considered to be one of the most exemplary descriptions of London during the bombing raids of World War II.
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