Painting of Mount Fuji
"Why did so many painters paint the same mountain again and again?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a painting of Mount Fuji said to be by Sakai Hoitsu of Japan. Mount Fuji is a mountain countless painters have painted over and over. The same mountain, yet by the heart of the one painting and by the season, it is born each time in a different form. The mountain is one, but the eyes that see it are not one. In this repetition I learn the depth of seeing. To think one knows it all because the subject is well known is to stop there. Only one who looks at the same thing a hundred times finds, on the hundredth, what is seen for the first time. Depth lies in looking again at what one thought one knew.
🌱Apply It Today
Look once more today, as if for the first time, at something you think you know well.
