The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
I can't see, not like everyone else, but I can feel. Things like balance and direction. Micro-changes in air density, vibrations, blankets of temperature variations. Mix all that with what I hear, subtle smells. All of the fragments form a sort of impressionistic painting.
A blind man walks into a bar. And a table. And a chair.
Today I saw two blind people fighting... Then I shouted, "I'm rooting for the one with a knife!" They both ran away.
So crucify the ego, before it's far too late, To leave behind this place so negative and blind And cynical - and you will come to find that, We are all one mind capable of All that's imagined and all conceivable, Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through, And let them pass right t…
I’ve gotten really hot since you went blind.
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see
There is a meaningful blindness at the very heart of vision.