“The dignity of man is to stand before God on his own feet, alive, conscious, alert to the light that has been placed in him, and perfectly obedient to that light. Wizardry and idolatry obscure the light, dim man’s vision, and reduce him to state of infatuated self-absorption in which he plays at unveiling and displaying powers that were meant to remain secret, not in the sense that they must be concealed from others, but in the sense that the artist ought not to wasting his own attention on them or calling attention of others to them.”
(Thomas Merton Theology of Creativity, 1960)
"As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualise it. As soon as you intellectualise something, it is no longer what you saw" (Shunryu Suzuki)
Seeing processes everything. Seeing brings what is into focus. To understand what I am seeing I compare it with everything else I have seen. And the intellectualising begins. If I am aware that that is what will happen, can I hold the judgement back ? Keeping what I first saw in view.