blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
Interpretation
Blindness is a personal experience that relates to one's inner self and perception.
This quote by Jose Saramago suggests that blindness is not merely a physical condition but also a deeply personal and subjective experience. It emphasizes that how one perceives and reacts to blindness is unique to each individual, shaped by their inner thoughts, feelings, and the context of their lives. It invites reflection on the nature of perception and the diverse ways people engage with their realities, highlighting that the struggle or acceptance of one's limitations is profoundly private.
In practice
During a discussion on personal challenges, this quote can provide insight into the emotional aspect of overcoming obstacles.
Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, 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.
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.
Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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