It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

For Today and Tomorrow

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, May 25, 2014:

 

The heart is most important of all. In his classic The Little Prince, the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry writes: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." It is just as he says. We cannot always tell whether something is genuine just with our eyes. Only by looking with the heart can we discern the true essence.