“Those with eyes to see will see your light and be enchanted by it.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
Treasure in Clay: the Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, (New York, NY: Image Books/Doubleday, 1980)
“Those with eyes to see will see your light and be enchanted by it.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory — and very few eyes can see the mystery of life”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
a life like the Scriptures, figurative... Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14 - May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.”
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Sparrow
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States
Just Say No (1986)
Context: And finally, to young people watching or listening, I have a very personal message for you: There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise. Our country needs you, but it needs you to be clear-eyed and clear-minded. I recently read one teenager's story. She's now determined to stay clean but was once strung out on several drugs. What she remembered most clearly about her recovery was that during the time she was on drugs everything appeared to her in shades of black and gray and after her treatment she was able to see colors again.
So, to my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. And when it comes to drugs and alcohol just say NO.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.