..(a) kind of harm the appetites bring upon a person is blindness and darkness. vapors make the air murky and a hindrance to the bright sunshine; a cloudy mirror does not clearly reflect a persons countenance; so too muddy water reflects only a hazy image of his features. in just this way a mans intellect, clouded by their appetites, becomes dark and impedes the sun of their natural reason or supernatural wisdom from shining within and completely illuminating it. and because of the darkening of the intellect, the will becomes weak and the memory dull and disordered in its proper operation. since these faculties depend upon the intellect in their operations, they are manifestly disordered and troubled when the intellect is hindered. the appetites blinds and darkens the soul because the appetite as such is blind. it is blind because of itself it has no intellect. reason always acts as a blind mans guide for the appetite. consequently, every time a mans appetite leads him, he is blinded, just as we might say that when a blind man guides someone who has good eyesight both are blind...st. john of the cross
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:38:06 +0000
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