Nothing is invisible until someone looks and does not see.
From The Soul Without the Story, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
There is a brown moth on the maple by the mailbox that I have known about since April. This morning a man stood with his nose a foot from the bark, looking for the thing his daughter said she had seen, and he looked for a long while and then said there was nothing there. The moth was under his chin. I used to think being hidden was something a creature did, a talent, a trick of the wings; I thought the moth was clever. Nothing is invisible until someone looks and does not see. Before the man came it was just a moth on a tree, and I am not sure what it was afterward, or whether the difference happened to the moth at all.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- As there is one sun, there is one river that courses all our veins.
- The deepest root finds the purest water.
- The wind moves the trees, but what moves the wind?
- No amount of building bridges out will spare you the work of building a bridge in.
- When you know you are going home, you look for a road that leads home.
- We do not stand on the surface of the earth, but on roots that go much deeper.