All Quotes By Tag: Blind

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life’s illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”

- Suzy Kassem,
Tag: awakening, beautiful, beauty, blind, closing-ears, closing-eyes, conformityredemption, creator, explore, eyes, facades, fake, fruit, fruitful-garden, fruits, garden, god, god-s-garden, grateful, gratitude, illumination, illusion, illusions, journey, life, life-path, light, looking, miracle, miracles, mirage, nature, orchardgracious, path, prayer, quest, real, ripe, search, searching-truth, seeking-truth, sight, substance, superficial, surface, tongues, treasure, truth, truth-path, ugly, vision, wander, wisdom, wise, wonder,

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”

Card image cap - H.L. Mencken
Tag: black-cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man, metaphysics, misattributed-h-l-mencken, philosopher, philosophy, religion, search, theologian, theology, untruth, untruthful, wishful-thinking,

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

Card image cap - Friedrich Nietzsche,
Tag: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life,

“This is how the girl who couldn’t speak and the man who couldn’t see fell in love.”

Card image cap - Margaret Atwood,
Tag: blind, love, see, speak,

“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection .”

Card image cap - Charles Dickens,
Tag: blind, great-writers, love, truth,

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

Card image cap - Criss Jami,
Tag: beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love,