Sight is for the Blind: October 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Disability or Challenge?

This is a great question concerning blindness and if nothing else one which deserves and requires sincere contemplation and thought. I recently came across this great essay by Kenneth Jernigan called "Blindness- A Left Handed Dissertation." Maybe it will help you come to a conclusion on whether you think blindness is a disability or a challenge but either way you will definitely have a greater awareness. It will open your eyes and show you that without realizing it society can really make things difficult for people who are not "normal". On a side note, I am including a pic of Allison! So proud of her for accepting the CHALLENGE and riding the bus to school everyday on her own! Way to Go Sweetheart!

Famous Quotes About Vision

"You are blind because you believe you can see, not because you cannot see." Unknown

"Where there is no vision the people perish" King Solomon

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision" Helen Keller

"Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith" Stephen S Wise

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" Gian Carlo Menotti

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift

"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision" Unknown

"People only see what they are prepared to see" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome." John Kotter

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." Mao Tse-Tung

"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic." Charles R Swindoll

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton

"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." Martin Luther
King Jr.

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be". Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Mine eye affecteth mine heart" The Prophet Jeremiah

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened" Paul the Apostle

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." G.K. Chesterton

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for" John Lubbock

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." Charles H Perkhurst

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" John the Apostle

"For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind." Jesus Christ

"For we walk by faith, not by sight"
Paul the Apostle