How does the world appear to our eyes?

"I hope you have not, nor ever will forget how vain the world appeared to your eye, when you looked back (as it were over your shoulder) and saw how it shrunk away from you; nor will you ever forget the awful apprehensions of eternity that then seized your spirit, or the value you then had for Christ; which things, I hope, still do, and ever will remain with you."

From The Fountain of Life opened up: or, A Display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory, by John Flavel.