Claude Gellee painted
lovely pictures of the English countryside.
Europeans loved his
landscapes, with their blue hues and mild distortions.
But when the people
went for the carriage rides in the country, they were
disappointed because it
didn't look the way Gellee had painted it.
Then someone discovered
that if you held blue glass up to your eyes and
looked through it, the
trees and hills and sky looked just like a
Gellee painting! Soon
everyone was looking through "Claude glasses" when they travelled.
We
often let others do our seeing for us.
We get lazy and rely on
the images of television and movies, instead of really seeing with our own eyes.
Our world becomes
distorted and we lose sight of the natural beauty that surrounds us.
Each
of us carries reality inside ourselves, and as we grow stronger within,
we discover that we can
see clearest when we trust our own eyes.
There is a glorious
world, full and rich, just waiting for us to
Will I see the world through
my own eyes today?
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