Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!
-Matthew 6
Oh, but I'm so small I can barely be seen, how can this great love be inside of me?
Look at your eyes, they're small in size, but they see enormous things.
-Four word letter Part two
Eyes are strange and mysterious things.
I've been thinking a lot about eye contact recently.
Why is eye contact so strange?
Why do people avoid it?
Why when it happens do we feel so odd?
What is it about our eyes?
We want to look but we don't want to be seen.
Public speaking is one of the biggest fears.
Asking a crowd to focus their eye contact on me...why?
Eye contact can mean so many things.
I've seen the children in my class stare down one another when they are mad with looks that could kill.
I've seen footage of two male animals fighting for power, most of the time staring down one another.
I've looked into the eyes of animals and just by focusing my eyes on them, they have felt threatened.
Eye contact?
Body language
non verbal communication
This stuff is so strange.
It's as if we can interact and communicate in this world without speaking the same language.
We know when an animal is mad, we know when an animal is afraid, but our brains are so different and our language also.
How are we able to connect with the world like this?
I can tell when a plant needs water, but it doesn't speak or ask.
I can even notice when a friend's "I'm fine" means they really are not 'fine'
If I'm walking down the street and I hold eye contact on a woman I would be considered a creep for merely resting my sight in one place.
If I'm walking down the street and I hold eye contact on a man I would be asking to fight for merely resting my sight in one place.
This is no different for animals. And as I see the kids in my class stare down each other or get upset when I'm simply looking at their eyes it's strange that it doesn't need taught.
We all know the eyes of another living thing are very powerful. They direct what that living thing is focusing on in the moment.
We feel judged, condemned, threatened, awkward, angry, when another's eye contact rests on us.
This is such a strange thing.
I like eye contact, it's intense and it's powerful.
It speaks every language without words.
The King Beetle on the Coconut Estate - mewithoutYou
-Matthew 6
Oh, but I'm so small I can barely be seen, how can this great love be inside of me?
Look at your eyes, they're small in size, but they see enormous things.
-Four word letter Part two
Eyes are strange and mysterious things.
I've been thinking a lot about eye contact recently.
Why is eye contact so strange?
Why do people avoid it?
Why when it happens do we feel so odd?
What is it about our eyes?
We want to look but we don't want to be seen.
Public speaking is one of the biggest fears.
Asking a crowd to focus their eye contact on me...why?
Eye contact can mean so many things.
I've seen the children in my class stare down one another when they are mad with looks that could kill.
I've seen footage of two male animals fighting for power, most of the time staring down one another.
I've looked into the eyes of animals and just by focusing my eyes on them, they have felt threatened.
Eye contact?
Body language
non verbal communication
This stuff is so strange.
It's as if we can interact and communicate in this world without speaking the same language.
We know when an animal is mad, we know when an animal is afraid, but our brains are so different and our language also.
How are we able to connect with the world like this?
I can tell when a plant needs water, but it doesn't speak or ask.
I can even notice when a friend's "I'm fine" means they really are not 'fine'
If I'm walking down the street and I hold eye contact on a woman I would be considered a creep for merely resting my sight in one place.
If I'm walking down the street and I hold eye contact on a man I would be asking to fight for merely resting my sight in one place.
This is no different for animals. And as I see the kids in my class stare down each other or get upset when I'm simply looking at their eyes it's strange that it doesn't need taught.
We all know the eyes of another living thing are very powerful. They direct what that living thing is focusing on in the moment.
We feel judged, condemned, threatened, awkward, angry, when another's eye contact rests on us.
This is such a strange thing.
I like eye contact, it's intense and it's powerful.
It speaks every language without words.
The King Beetle on the Coconut Estate - mewithoutYou