# Observe the little things
In a meditative state, things that usually mean nothing to me can mean everything.[^1] [[Pay attention]].
Rilke shares the things from which his eyes draw refreshment: the simple, inconsiderable things in nature, which hardly anyone sees.[^2] Part of the job of an artist is to call attention to overlooked things.[^3] Rilke commends, if you can cling to these, then everything will become "easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory … in your inmost consciousness."[^2]
![[The most ordinary things —Michel de Montaigne]]
![[Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things —Katherine May]]
[^1]: [[Creative, Not Famous—The Small Potato Manifesto]] pg. 69
[^2]: [[Letters to a Young Poet]] pg. 27
[^3]: [[Show Your Work]] pg. 79