"When I look, I see clear as a sunflower. I’m always walking the roads Looking right and left, And..."

“When I look, I see clear as a sunflower.
I’m always walking the roads
Looking right and left,
And sometimes looking behind …
And what I see every second
Is something I’ve never seen before,
And I know how to do this very well …
I know how to have the essential astonishment
That a child would have if it could really see
It was being born when it was being born …
I feel myself being born in each moment,
In the eternal newness of the world …
I believe in the world like I believe in a marigold,
Because I see it. But I don’t think about it
Because to think is to not understand …
The world wasn’t made for us to think about
(To think is to be sick in the eyes)
But for us to see and agree with …
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses …
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is …
Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking …”

- Fernando Pessoa (via fernsandmoss)