The real voyage of discovery consists of seeing the familiar with new eyes  

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
• Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. Albert Szent- Gyorgyi
• Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. Dan Brown
• We must not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place where we began and to know the place for the first time. T.S.Elliot
• Adding sparkle to our lives doesn’t come from seeking fresh experiences, but from feeling the freshness of each experience. Behram
• To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. John Burroughs
• Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much. Lucy R. Lippard
• The best ideas aren’t hidden in shadowy recesses. They’re right in front of us, hidden in plain sight.  Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes.  Richard Farson
• Discovery,  Wonder,  Awe,  Reverence,  Appreciation,  Perception

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Find a new way of looking at things

• One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller
• A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye. Albert Einstein
• ..means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James
• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono

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Look below the surface  

• …with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth
• Break through the surface ideas, truths, laws, whatever it is that we are contemplating, to explore their deeper meaning and implications. John Kehoe
• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts
• There are two sorts of curiosity — the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.  Robert Lynd

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Open your eyes to the wonder of things, even if they are familiar  

• The child lives in the neighbourhood of wonder where innocence keeps mystery playful. Each new event and encounter is all- absorbing. John O’Donohue
• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha
• Try to put on some wonder-glasses and attempt to see your “same” world as a whole new world. Jeffrey Friend
• Wonder

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Look at it as if you’re seeing it for the first time  

• I will see one thing today as if for the first time. Today I give myself permission to apply new feelings of appreciation to a flower, a curtain fluttering in the breeze, a child’s game, a tree gracing the roadside – anything I have taken for granted which calls out to be seen anew. Deepak Chopra
• See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free. Deepak Chopra
• Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with joy. Betty Smith
• To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. Oscar Wilde
• Do it like it’s the first time. A beginner’s mind is open and an open mind innovates. Danielle LaPorte
• Cultivate a beginner’s mind moment to moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see. Douglas Adams
• Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one’s consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. Albert Camus
• How do you lift the veils of illusion? You start by asking your Higher Self to lift them and being willing to see what is revealed. Question things you have taken for granted. Explore new areas. Imagine you are a small child or that you have just arrived on the planet and are examining things for the first time. Orin

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Try looking at things without mentally naming, labelling or conceptualising them  

• The more you perceive life through a mental screen of abstraction and conceptualization, the more lifeless and flat the world around you becomes. Eckhart Tolle
• A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels, and images. Eckhart Tolle
• Go slow. Stop thinking. Look around. You’ll see something beautiful if you open yourself. Sermon of Vincent van Gogh
• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Wendell L. Wilke
• Our ego uses concepts as filters to screen us from a direct perception of what is.  Chogyam Trungpa
• Perceive without labelling

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