We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes . . . Our looking is perfected every day — but we see less and less. Never has it been more urgent to speak of seeing . . . we are on-lookers, spectators . . . "subjects" we are, that look at "objects." Quickly we stick labels on all that is, labels that stick once — and for all. By these labels we recognize everything but no longer see anything.
— Frederick Franck, Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn