Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice WalkerRead
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects the idea of perceiving both the visible and hidden aspects of life, emphasizing enlightenment over darkness.
Alice Walker suggests that our perception of life is dual-faceted; the 'sighted eye' symbolizes our ability to see and understand what is plainly evident, while the 'unsighted eye' represents our intuition or insight into deeper, often hidden truths. This balance between visible reality and inner wisdom allows us to experience life in a more illuminated way, suggesting that knowledge and awareness can lead to a more enriching existence.
Themes
PerceptionInsightWisdomEnlightenmentLife
In practice
Example use cases
During a graduation speech, one might use this quote to inspire graduates to seek deeper understanding in life.
More from Alice Walker
All quotes →June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerRead
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
Alice WalkerRead
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerRead
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice WalkerRead
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerRead
Similar quotes
I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan PoeRead
Knowledge enormous makes a God of me._x000D_ _x000D_ Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,_x000D_ _x000D_ Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,_x000D_ _x000D_ Creations and destroyings, all at once_x000D_ _x000D_ Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,_x000D_ _x000D_ And deify me, as if some blithe wine_x000D_ _x000D_ Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,_x000D_ _x000D_ And so become immortal.
John KeatsRead
Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.
Neale Donald WalschRead
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina GrimkeRead
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
Paul JohnsonRead
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
Deepak ChopraRead