The "Third Eye" of wisdom..

Lord Shiva is depicted with an open third eye. The third eye is the inner eye or the mind's eye. It is the way we perceive the world when we have a spiritual connection to everything. With the wisdom of the third eye, our view of life changes and living becomes joyful.

Great poets and philosophers like Tagore, Kuvempu, Thyagaraja, Wordsworth, Rumi, Gibran, Maya Angelou, Muir, Thoreau .. all saw the world through the third eye. It is the reason why their works are sources of endless inspiration.

While John Muir filled pages and pages of his journal with accounts of his experiences and exquisite delight and wonder at seeing the ridges, domes and canyons of the Yosemite. His companion shepherd Billy saw nothing in the Yosemite ..only to say .."there is nothing worth seeing anyway, only rocks .. a dead good place to keep away from" to which Muir laments.. "Such souls, I suppose, are asleep, or smothered and befogged beneath mean pleasures". Like Billy most of us chug along in our lives asleep and befogged, blind to the beauty and every day miracles.

"Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing." - Camille Pissarro