05/28/2026
I read yesterday, that in many cultures, when someone calls a person or a place beautiful, the response is "It's in your eyes".
We also know the phrase, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But do we consider what that actually means?
Your perception determines what you see. If you want to see greed and pain, you will easily find it.
If you want to see love and laughter. It's there.
Today on the Podcast Modern Wisdom, I hear them say, "it starts with the eyes you're seeing the world through".
I recalled sharing a story when teaching a class about ten years ago. And I told a story about perspectacles. Here is a link to the story...and how funny to learn in this moment that the blog was written by Glennon Doyle .
We are actively choosing the world we observe. Things happen, we give them meaning.
https://momastery.com/blog/2014/08/11/give-liberty-give-debt/