The windows

"The eye is the jewel of the body." Henry David Thoreau

"A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself." Joseph Addison

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake." Leonardo da Vinci

Just a few of the thousands of quotes about eyes. As we've heard time and time again, the eyes are the windows to the soul. If you look hard enough, you can decipher most emotions embodied in a person by just looking long enough into their eyes.

I had something reinforced to me today that I always knew existed. I L-O-V-E eyes!!! It's part of the reason I hate talking on the phone and almost always refuse to drive through at fast food restaurants...I want to SEE the eyes of the person I am speaking to. Some eyes can absolutely captivate me. I had coffee today with a gentleman with gorgeous eyes. Stop right there from the assumption that I was somehow turned on by this. I wasn't. There is a difference. But I WAS captivated and I did pretty much stare at them for the two hours we talked. It's almost a disorder I have because once I am taken in by eyes, I pay little attention to what is being said from the mouth. I remember little of what was actually spoken and nearly every time they glanced up during a sentence.

I have always been one incredibly intrigued by the study of kinesics (body language). I'm a people watcher and I love to interpret the countless communications people make while speaking nothing at all. But eyes, above all, say the most. They are the easiest to translate because they simply cannot hide the emotion of the heart.

Pope John XXIII once said: "I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart." While I believe this statement came with both actions being made in the literal sense, I believe whole heartedly that the two go hand-in-hand figuratively as well. When you truly look into someone's eyes, you are also allowing yourself to bring your heart a step closer to theirs.