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# A Quote
- URL: https://letters.michaelmaddaus.com/blog/a-quote-5/
- Published: 2025-06-23T11:37:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-23T11:37:56.000Z
- Author: Michael Maddaus
- Tags: Quotes, Newsletter

*“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.* 
  
*I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed. The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I want to see. It is like peeling an onion. There is always another layer, and another, and another. And each layer is more beautiful than the last.* 
  
*This is the way I look at the world. I don’t see it as a collection of objects, but as a vast and mysterious organism. I see the beauty in the smallest things, and I find wonder in the most ordinary events. I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.* 
  
*I know that I will never understand everything, but that doesn’t stop me from trying. I am *content to live in the mystery*, to be surrounded by the unknown. I am content to be a seeker, a pilgrim, a traveler on the road to nowhere.”*  
  
\~Henry Miller

The same is true for humans. When you give a human close attention, they too can become a source of mystery, instead of an object. 

As Jefferson Fisher said in [The Next Conversation](https://www.amazon.com/Next-Conversation-Argue-Less-Talk-ebook/dp/B0D57KTPT1/ref=tmm%5Fkin%5Fswatch%5F0?ref=letters.michaelmaddaus.com), humans are like a river. The person you see is not the person you are talking to - we are all rivers with surface waves and an undercurrent - the external cues (eyes/ears) shape your judgments, but the ***truth is below the surface.***

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/?ref=letters.michaelmaddaus.com) tells us how to ***see*** anything more clearly by asking if your ***"mind can stand completely free of past knowledge, meeting the unknown without seeking refuge in beliefs?"***