Seeing is limited in essence by that which we expect to see and by what we are conditioned to see based on the definitions and classifications of our culture.
Snakes can see through their eyelids even when they close their eyes.
Seeing is reflective of an inner quality such that the question is not what one looks at but what one sees.
Seeing is not in a settled relationship with knowing. When we see the sun set we know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
Seeing is a skill to be learned via accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to the deferral of judgment, to letting-things-come-to-it.
How does a hurricane see?With one eye
The manatee's eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
Seeing is for those with a kind of lightless dark is the night of darkness, a mere act where one's eyes are full of light but one sees nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. As such, it were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing.
Seeing is not the proper object of the sense of sight. Since the proper object of sight is the visible, it is not through the sense of sight that we see that we are seeing.