As old Will Shakespeare said, Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (MND I.1.240-241, just to prove I really did earn my PhD in Liberal Arts, as well as that I’m a smartarse.) Although said by spiteful Helena, who thinks Demetrius should love her for her fealty rather than Hermia for her beauty, the truth of the line still comes through. As Lightfoot says, “We see what we look for.” Heading into this new year, let’s look with kinder eyes. A final quote, from Keats: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Atsilawesa December 31, 2023, 11:18 am
I’ve heard these before, but the only one I could find on the net. It’s close to what I remember but it’s been a long time since I spoke to my elders of Cherokee, and Sioux (which is where my relatives came from. )
“The Elders say the men should look at women in a sacred way. The men should never put women down or shame them in any way. When we have problems, we should seek their counsel. We should share with them openly. A woman has intuitive thought. She has access to another system of knowledge that few men develop. She can help us understand. We must treat her in a good way."
Or
“A man who looks first to a woman’s outer beauty will never know her beauty divine, for there is dust upon his eyes and he is blind. But a man who sees in a woman the spirit of the Great One and sees her beauty first in spirit and truth, that man will know “Divinity” in that woman. ”
Fitting
– Kantuck Atsilawesa Nadie
December 31, 2023, 11:18 am
I’ve heard these before, but the only one I could find on the net. It’s close to what I remember but it’s been a long time since I spoke to my elders of Cherokee, and Sioux (which is where my relatives came from. )
“The Elders say the men should look at women in a sacred way. The men should never put women down or shame them in any way. When we have problems, we should seek their counsel. We should share with them openly. A woman has intuitive thought. She has access to another system of knowledge that few men develop. She can help us understand. We must treat her in a good way."
Or
“A man who looks first to a woman’s outer beauty will never know her beauty divine, for there is dust upon his eyes and he is blind. But a man who sees in a woman the spirit of the Great One and sees her beauty first in spirit and truth, that man will know “Divinity” in that woman. ”
Fitting
– Kantuck Atsilawesa Nadie