encounters with nondual awareness

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
 

The Notebooks of
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo's Notebooks
Leonardo da Vinci

 The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression
Jose Arguelles

leonardo da vinci

the most visual of scientists
the most awakened of eyes
 

The eye, which is the window of the soul, is the chief organ whereby the understanding can have the most complete and magnificent view of the infinite works of nature.

Now, do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? ...
It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind. ...
It is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain.
It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars; it has discovered the elements and their location. ...
It has given birth to architecture and to perspective and the divine art of painting.

Oh, excellent thing, superior to all others created by God! What praises can do justice to your nobility? What peoples, what tongues will fully describe your function? The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world. Owing to the eye the soul is content to stay in its bodily prison, for without it such bodily prison is torture.

O marvelous, O stupendous necessity, thou with supreme reason compellest all effects to be the direct result of their causes; and by a supreme and irrevocable law every natural action obeys thee by the shortest route possible. Who would believe that so small a space could contain all the images of the universe?
Leonardo, quoted in The Transformative Vision by Jose Arguelles

The World of Leonardo
Robert Wallace

artisans

creating from wonder

e h gombrich

fred gettings

kimon nicolaides

marion milner

robert mckim

the invitation