Do You Spiritually Handicap Yourself?

If you choose not to see the truth,
are you good as blind then?
If you choose not to hear the truth,
are you good as deaf then?

How blind and deaf are we to the truth?
We must be both to some extent,
or we would see and hear the whole truth,
or we would be true to it always.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.
The most deluded people are those
who choose to ignore what they already know.

– John Heywood