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I met a wooden fountain in Guggisberg, Switzerland. The fresh spring water bubbles day and night joyously. And it does that so steadily, the fountain soon went unnoticed. Things that are there all day and night, that don’t obviously change, run, hide or yell at us quickly get forgotten, ignored. They seem to go out of our life.
Our brain cannot process every information the sensory system creates, so it has to set priorities. Things that our brain can easily identify, like a wooden fountain, go out of our awareness soon. Once identified, they’re “gone”. So, we can live next to such an object, we won’t really notice it’s very details. Unless the fountain will be stolen or broken, we don’t pay much attention to it.
One can learn to use the same priorization mechanism of our brain, that makes the obvious things “disappear”, to scan our world in several “sweeps”. In The Good Eye we have a lesson that we call the “What else?”-Exercise. Stand in front of a thing, any thing, and ask yourself for at least twenty times: what else do I see? You will be amazed how much more there is, than the first, quick pass of looking has passed your brains priorization filter…
These bubbles seen in the above shot, are simply air bubbles sitting on the bottom of the wooden fountain. The dark area at the top comes from the shadow, the bright light at the bottom is the effect of beautiful sunlight. I could have looked at this scene for hours… every day wonders can be so stunning. 
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Roland
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One hurried step and you passed this piece of our world. It won’t take you any longer than a fraction of a second to move over it. So it must be unimportant, because there are countless other spots that wait for you to move over quickly. Speed is key and leads to new places. This is why we learned to fly airplanes. We can cover more space without wasting time.
But once you start looking at just one of those spots you just stepped over without noticing, once you begin to look at that spot from the perspective of a grasshopper, you will be amazed how beautiful and rich that very spot is. And from my experience, this is true for every single spot on this earth.
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Petunia is a flower growing on our balcony. It took only a few years until I finally discoevred the incredible beauty shown on and on. One good example, how prejudice makes us blind. As soon as we identify an object, we stop discovering more about its true nature and beauty.
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Live’s a stage… or is it a theater… or is it just so,
that every moment of our life we are actors and we try hard
to perform a role which manages to hide our deepest fears?
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