The human eye, with its function of seeing, is often used as

a symbol of spiritual insight; indeed one of

the names Patanjali uses for the self is the seer (drashtri).
You might have been asked at one time or
another in a yoga class, in preparation for breathing or
meditation, to look inward toward the self.
This is something of a paradox, since the self is ultimately
the looker. We quite naturally tend to
imagine that our I is somewhere inside our body, peering
at the world out there. This notion
mistakenly separates our I from the world, strengthening
our conditioned existential sense of selflimitation
and alienation.
According to some schools of traditional yoga, in here
and out there are simply two sides of
the same coin, aspects of the same I that pervades
everything everywhere. English mathematician
George Spencer-Brown remarks that (at least on the
physical plane) the observer and the observed
are made of the same fundamental wavelike particles.
Thus, he concludes, we cannot escape the
fact that the world we know is constructed in order (and
thus in such a way as to be able) to see
itself.2 Then Brown continues: