Looking and seeing

(Atop Bald Mountain.  Boulder, Colorado.)

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

~ Frederick Frank

Paying attention

(Everlasting Pea growing beside a granite boulder.)

The little things?  The little moments?  They aren’t little.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Forever leaving

(Canyon Loop Trail near Boulder, Colorado.)

And we:  spectators, always, everywhere, looking at everything, and never from!  Who’s turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we always have the look of someone going away?  Just as a person on the last hill showing him or her the whole valley one last time, turns, and stops, and lingers — so we live, and are forever leaving.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke