What the mind says it sees, the eye reaches.
1, Explanation: where the mind sees, where the eyes can reach.
2. Sources:
(1) The Analects of Confucius
(2) The essay "Childish Interests" written by Shen Fu, a writer in the Qing Dynasty: "Summer mosquitoes become thunder, and I privately plan to make a flock of cranes dancing in the air, and where the heart says, there will be a thousand or a hundred of them, and they will indeed be cranes.
Translation: In summer, mosquitoes made a thunderous noise, and I secretly compared them to a flock of cranes dancing in the air, and when I thought of this in my heart, the thousands of mosquitoes really turned into cranes.
3. Excerpts from the original text:
The gentleman wants to speak in silence, but is sensitive to action.
Interpretation: A gentleman should be prudent in speech but quick in action.
Ner: to be patient and say little; Min: to be quick and active.
Expanded:
Sentences similar to "As far as the eye can see, so can the heart". Similar sentences to "As far as the eye can see, so the heart goes":
1. As far as the eye can see, so the heart goes--Lao She, "The Sea of Forests"
Explanation: What the eye can see is what the heart aspires to.
2. What the heart desires Solely in the past. --Seven Sumerian's "Dust Song"
Explanation: Wherever the heart desires, one must go even if one is wearing straw shoes.
3. If the heart yearns for a place, one's behavior will be able to reach it. --Shi Ma Qian, "Praise for the Family of Confucius"
Explanation: If one's heart always yearns for that place, then one can surely go there.
Compiled by the disciples of Confucius and his re-disciples, the Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of the Confucian school, focusing on Confucius' political propositions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles. It is one of the classic works of Confucianism, which focuses on Confucius' political ideas, ethical concepts and educational principles. It is also known as the Four Books and Five Classics, along with the University, the Medieval Times, Mencius, the Book of Poetry, the Book of Common Sense, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes and the Spring and Autumn Annals.