[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw now, which we could not now unsee, for we had accepted unawares a bit of the Canyon each time we saw a photograph of it, and those pieces, filtered and diluted, had accumulated in us, so that we never saw anything for the first time. Perhaps the ugliest of our impulses, to shove the sublime through a pinhole. Claire Vaye Watkins
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The power of the mind is limitless. However, some people would like to believe that human's minds are finite. These people would like to make us believe that the only way we can truly learn something is through school, books, and lectures. They want us to believe that our knowledge can only increase if we acquire it from what others have learned.

However, the truth is that the mind has an infinite ability to create new things not just expand on what already exists. This quote describes how this newness occurs through the act of staring at something beautiful without seeing it for the first time. Sure, you know of its existence based on what you have seen before but there was something about seeing it for the first time that made it more than just an idea in your head.

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