A GOOD eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things only. For that is proper to sore eyes. So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for, to grind. As ready therefore must a sound understanding be for whatsoever shall happen. But he that saith, O that my Children might live! and, O that all men might commend me for whatsoever I do! is an eye that seeks after green things; or as teeth, after that which is tender.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book x. 25.
All the colours of the spectrum of light make up the world around us. We need to understand that there must be sadness mixed with happiness, balance in all things is what makes the world. There must be rain with the sunshine in order for things to grow.
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