Blinded by Truth, Enlightened Now

A BETTER LIFE

A better life lies on the other side of Truth.  There is only one authentic true reality, and many fake versions which have blinded many. – Dr Michael Heng

Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day-to-day tasks. — Debasish Mridha

The Truth of the matter - as I've come to understand it - is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It's better to not be thirsty. — Tarryn Fisher

The Truth is easy to see, but hard to look at when you are blinded by the demands that your body and soul make of you. — S. Vagus

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see Truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear Truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think Truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel Truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak Truth. — Harold Bell Wright

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this Truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success. — Richard M. Weaver

SELF-LOVE

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another. — Plato

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most. — Hannah Hurnard

Many people believe that eliminating the apparent causes of fear will eliminate it, but fear, like beauty, is part of the world. The fear of fear results in the growth of terror as well as a loss of the beauty and wonder of the world. By fearing fear, we create the room for terror and panic to grow. People become blinded by fear, driven by anxieties, and increasingly ruled by phobias and obsessions. When we fail to recognize how fear works in the world, we become ruled by it. The point is not to become paralyzed with foreboding or be caught in the panic that can grip the collective and cause people to run blindly in the wrong direction. The point is to willingly go where most fear to go, to follow where the fear might lead and face the ways that the world roars at us. — Michael Meade

CHANGE MINDWARE

The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can take place not only in mental but in moral power. The earth tragically today is full of people who remain fixated on a childish level of conscience. What an illusion has blinded the human race: that our conscience is given to us once and for all at birth and we ourselves have to do little or nothing about it ... The truth is that our moral capacity is purely potential and needs strenuous training, education and development. It is certainly not an organic power that comes to us at birth, like breathing, which demands little attention from us as long as we live ... A revolution has to take place in our thinking about morality. We have to become as sensitive about being moral morons as we are now anxious about being intellectual idiots. — Joshua Loth Liebman

You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their own clouded version. You will begin to read into everything incorrectly and find yourself lost in a delusional story stitched together from the crumbs of over analyzed words once spoken, misunderstandings or speculation. Life should not be wasted by collecting clues or piecing together a puzzle about how someone feels. Love is straightforward and it is clearly seen on the cloudiest days of your life. If someone loves you it will be obvious. They won't let you go, until you ask them to. — Shannon L. Alder

SEE WITH YOUR SOUL’S EYE

I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium ... I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly" any more than he who sees them in their working and effects. — Socrates

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life. — Shannon L. Alder

For the eye of the soul, blinded and buried by other pursuits, is rekindled and aroused again by these (studies) and these alone, and it is better that this be saved than thousands of bodily eyes, for by it alone is the truth of the universe beheld. — Nicomachus Of Gerasa

BE BLIND NO MORE

We are all blinded by our beliefs. Only respectful debate can bring us closer to the greater truth. — Jim Steele

That the discovery of this great Truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light. — George Berkeley

Blinded no more in a darken world

Growing in the shadows,

My eyes behold the lighted path

Of a new life awaiting;

Follow your heart,

Look with your soul,

Trust your instincts,

Know what you think,

See what you say,

Let your intuition guides,

Be strong and not afraid.

Follow your heart,

Go the lighted path beyond Truth

To the end of the lights,

To the crossroads of time,

To new choices and decisions.

Open your heart,

Open your eyes,

Open your ears;

Bring the new life to light,

With courage to grow your destinies,

No longer blinded by the Truth.

- Dr Michael Heng -