“The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it’s highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed.”
“The phrase “In the blink of an eye” is misleading, because one eye closing and opening is not a blink—it’s a wink.”
“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
“Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.”
“We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.”