Seeing With Our Hearts and Imagination

Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles was on my mind today. So, I thought I would share this with you.

"No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always know sometimes think it's me, but you know I know and it's a dream.
I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it's all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever."

This is a message to us not to get to hung up on what we see with our physical eyes, but to remember to use our hearts and imagination when we see. In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, from The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince),"It is only with the heart that one can see; what is essential is invisible to the eye."   

  

With time, our physical eyes will see more and more, with the aid of our hearts and imagination. In order for us to see fully, we have to regain our innocent hearts, to remember how we used to be and in fact still are, inside ourselves. To find that magical place where anything is possible. 

The original English translation of Le Petit Prince, published in New York in 1943, had this dedication: "[To] the child who became Leon Werth. All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it." The book was published one year before Saint-Exupery was shot down over the Mediterranean by German reconnaissance planes.