looking world with new eyes

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. " so says
Marcel Proust a French writer.
Today i was watching an interesting episode from a serial "one life to love" - NDTV - They come with very good themes on living our lives fully and one of the persons who really lived such a life so it is said is Leonardo da Vinci who wrote or practiced so many aspects of the world be it art or even medicine.
Our lives have become so fast that we have no attention to the process and set our sights only on goal. This is so be it in office where only goal matters; when we eat, we are busy watching TV or rushing to finish, when we travel to our workplace or home, the attention is to reach not the process; Have we lost the ability to enjoy beauty of the present?
Imagine eating a luscious mango - can we enjoy its fragrance, its flavour, its color, its taste, its soft feeling and the sound of our teeth biting into its soft flesh? In short can we pay full attention to the act of eating, enjoying it and getting full benefit of eating mango? Can we make every act of ours enjoy the moment, its beauty just the same way as the Japanese have made drinking tea a ceremony?
I am not saying that; don't focus on the goal- in fact once you are clear about the goal and have begun the journey which matches the goal, forget about the goal; you will not only reach your goal but also enjoy the journey. Just try it!! And the bonus is, you will learn so much about life

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