life on planet earth on Myopia

Professional football players often get heated on the field, sometimes letting their emotions get the best of them when penalized by an official. Art Holst, a longtime NFL referee, recalls a Sunday ga...

One of the biggest tragedies of depression is myopia. You cannot see beyond your own nose.

Perfection....it functions as a form of myopia, a preoccupation with self-image that can stunt emotional growth.

In her compelling memoir Still Life , author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression. In this excerpt, Marchenko describes one of the many paradoxes that come with depression: how ...

When my grandparents were in their eighties, their television developed a fault that made the screen permanently bright green. It was good for viewing garden shows or nature programs, but it was prett...

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea, or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.... It were better far to sail forever in the night of blind...

On the effect of seeing for the first time after Cataract Surgery: The mental effort involved in these reasonings proves overwhelming for many patients. It oppresses them to realize, if they ever do ...

“If your eye causes you to sin…” is one of the boldest phrases from the mouth of Jesus, appearing three times in the gospels. Our eyes not only leads us into sinful behaviors, but also to take in sinf...

The reason we are not able to see God is the faintness of our desire.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she mentioned the work of Marius Von Senden who became curious about the effect it had on people who had been born blind to...

I can only choose within the world that I can see.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan In spite of the obstacles….Vision is the ability to see above and beyond the majority. Vision is perception...

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.

Self-deception . . . blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we’re blind, all the “solutions” we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception ob...

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Like a smartphone screen made blank by the rays of direct sunshine, one day we shall see Christ’s face. On that day, all the vain spectacles in this world of illusions and all the pixelated idols of o...

Søren Kierkegaard told a parable about a rich man riding in a lighted carriage driven by a peasant who sat behind the horse in the cold and dark outside. Precisely because he sat near the artificial l...

Maybe this sounds silly, but go outside and look up. You cannot see yourself. All you see is a vast expanse of possibilities. Look down. You will see yourself and little else. This is true in life. Lo...