The Secret of Seeing

"The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought....I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam."

-Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek