Seeing to Walk
"The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness."
Looking at the first half of this proverb, it might seem a bit foolish yet it is not. Doesn't everyone know a person's eyes are in their head? Ah, but that is not what it is saying. It is stating that a wise man's eyes are in his head. In other words, a wise man sees not with his eyes but with his mind and the knowledge he has in his mind and then studies what he not only sees with his eyes but what he hears with his ears, and what he feels with all of his senses. His eyes are his mind that encompasses all of his senses and he uses the mind to study all things. Wisdom produces more wisdom through thought and study and so a wise man becomes wiser for he seeks truth and nothing else.
On the second half of this proverb, it states the fool walks in darkness. Why? Because he does not seek truth to acquire wisdom and thus he does not know truth. A life without truth can only walk in darkness which is ignorance because where truth is, darkness must leave. So it is with a wise man and a fool! A wise man follows the way of truth and has peace within while a fool walks in darkness and cannot see the pits he will fall into and so trouble surrounds him. So be it for it is established as a law of the Creator and who can change it?