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> [Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/everyone-thinks-he-knows-what-a-lettuce-looks-like-but-start-to-draw/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

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## More by Frederick Franck

> [I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/i-have-learned-that-what-i-have-not-drawn-i-have-never-really-seen/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/enlightenment-is-simply-sanity-the-sanity-in-which-i-see-my-real/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/it-is-not-that-things-are-delusory-but-their-separateness-in-the/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/innumerable-buddhas-enlightened-innumerable-christs-crucified-always/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/all-at-once-i-saw-that-the-sun-was-round-since-then-i-have-been-the/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/we-do-a-lot-of-looking-we-look-through-lenses-telescopes-television/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [Do you believe in God?" "Which one?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/do-you-believe-in-god-which-one/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/everyone-thinks-he-knows-what-a-lettuce-looks-like-but-start-to-draw/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/this-apple-tree-is-not-the-first-one-i-draw-but-perhaps-the/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/the-distance-between-this-pigeon-s-brain-and-mine-is-minute-compared/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/while-drawing-grasses-i-learn-nothing-about-grass-but-wake-up-to-the/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/nothing-burns-in-hell-but-ego-says-tauler-does-anything-live-but/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/the-sinner-s-ego-is-crude-that-of-the-saint-refined-distilled-careful/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/in-this-twentieth-century-to-stop-rushing-around-to-sit-quietly-on/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

> [People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-franck/people-walking-karma-walking-buddha-nature-walking/)

[Frederick Franck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-franck/)

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