To the fearful eye, everything is threatening. When you look toward the world in a fearful way, all you see and concentrate on are things that can damage and threaten you.
To the greedy eye, everything can be possessed. A greedy person cannot enjoy what they have, because they are always haunted by that which they do not yet possess.
To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames. When the judgmental eye looks out, it sees things in terms of lines and squares. It is always excluding and separating. To the judgmental eye, to see is to judge.
To the indifferent eye, nothing calls or awakens.
To the loving eye, everything is real. The loving eye is bright because it can look lovingly upon anything. the loving vision does not become entangled in the agenda of power, seduction, and opposition.
--- John O'Donohue
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