Seeing Through the Eyes of Faith
The great 20th Century philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us to recognize our own role in construing the world. In his remarkable work, Philosophical Investigations, he coined the phrase “seeing-as” to suggest that truly seeing something requires mental organization, selecting what is significant from what is trivial, collating memories, and a host of other activities that make the act of seeing a partnership between the one who sees and the object that is seen. “Seeing-as” is another phrase for mindful experience.