Alice Walker Quotes

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.