Eyes and soul

by Paulo Coelho on June 6, 2008

Why, according to you, the eyes are the “windows of the soul”?

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Marie-Christine October 4, 2011 at 11:37 pm

“Au debut de la vie le coeur est en avant de nous, puis passe devant nos yeux au fur et a mesure de leur mise en place, puis vient se nicher dans notre poitrine.(dr Alain Soulier Sens et symboles)
On comprend alors pourquoi :

‘L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur’ Antoine de St Exupery

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Genie_Girl September 6, 2011 at 10:06 pm

AHHHH! THE EYES, LITTLE PRETTY EYES! :P.. “THEY ARE INDEED THE WINDOW TO ONE’SOUL!” I BELIEVE THAT. BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME ONE AND LOOK AT THEIR FACIAL EXPRESION OR THEIR BODY LANGUAGE THEY CAN FOOL YOU. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR EYES. THEIR EYES CAN NOT LIE. WITHIN THE EYES YOU CAN TELL IF THEY ARE HAPPY, IF THEY ARE HEALTHY, IF THEY ARE ANGRY, IF THEY ARE LONELY, IF THEY ARE SAD, IF THEY WANT TO CRY, IF THEY LOVE YOU, IF THEY HATE YOU, IF YOU NO LONGER ARE THE APPLE OF THEIR EYES. LOL. :p ONCE YOU LOOK AT THOSE PAIR OF EYES NO LIAR CAN PRETEND AND TRY TO FOOL YOU CAUSE IF YOU DON’T KNOW ONE OF THE METHODS NOW A DAYS ON HOW TO CATCH A LIAR IS BY LOOKING AT THEIR EYES AND VOILA! YOU CANNOT HIDE FEELINGS, THROUGH THE EYES YOU CAN TELL IF THEY ARE GUILTY, IF THEY ARE DEVASTATED. A PERSON’S EYES DON’T LIE.
YOU SEE, LONG AGO I DID NOT REALIZED THAT MY EYES SPARKLE, THEY SHINE WHEN I AM HAPPY OR WHEN I AM IN LOVE AND IT WAS UNTIL A FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS VERY IN TUNE WITH WHAT WE CALL PERCEPTION, INTUITIVE PERCEPTION. WELL SHE LOOKED AT ME AND ASKED, DO YOU STILL LOVE HIM” AND I KEPT QUIET, FOR I DID NOT WANT TO LIE AND SAY NO AND I DID NOT WANTED TO TELL HER I DID VERY MUCH. I JUST WANTED TO KEEP SILENCE AND SAID NOTHING. AND SHE TOOK A LOOK AT MY GLOWING EYES AND SAID: LOOK AT ME AND I DID AND SHE ASKED HER QUESTION ONE MORE TIME AND MY EYES GAVE ME AWAY, FOR MY FACIAL EXPRESION AND BODY LANGUAGE SAID SOMETHING ELSE, BUT MY EYES WERE SHINNING, THEY WERE FULL OF SPARKLES AND LIGHTS AND SHE SAID, NO NEED TO SAY ANYTHING. YOUR EYES TELL ME THAT YOU DO, I WISH YOU COULD SEE THEM, THEY GLOW WITH SO MUCH RADIENCE SHE SAID AND NOT UNTIL THEN DID I SMILED FOR I TRIED FOR HER NOT TO KNOW, NOT THAT IT MATTER, BUT MY EYES GAVE ME AWAY AND SINCE THEN, I BECAME OBSERVANT MORE THAN USUAL, SO MUCH SO THAT I NOW CAN CATCH A LIAR, I SEE THE HAPPINESS AND PEOPLES DIFFERENT STATES OF MIND AND A BIT MORE. THE EYES ARE INDEED THE WINDOW TO A PERSON’S UNIQE SOUL, LIFE AND ITS DEFINITION.
WHEN I LOOK AT SOME ONE’S EYES I CAN TELL IF THEY ARE WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE, I CAN TELL WHEN THEY ARE AMAZED, WHEN THEY ARE JOLLY, WHEN THEY ARE PROUD, WHEN THEY ARE IN LOVE, WHEN THEY ARE COLD, WHEN THEY ARE SAD, WHEN THEY ARE ABSENT ETC YOU NAME IT. NOW, I CAN TELL. THERE ARE VERY UNIQUE DETAILS, SOME SORT OF PECULIAR DEFINITION ON ONE’S PRECIOUS HUMAN BEINGS.
IN CONCLUSION, THE EYES ARE THE WINDOWS WHICH ALLOW US TO SEE THE INVISIBLE IN A VISIBLE WORLD, SOMEONE’S LOOK CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT A PERSON, THEREFORE THEIR INNER SOUL CAN JUST BE ONE GLANCE AWAY :p :p BLINK! BLINK! :p

SO NEXT TIME MY FELLOW BLOGGERS DO INDEED TAKE A LOOK AT SOME ONE’S EYES AND SEE FOR YOUR SERLVES AND DO A LITTLE OBSERVATION AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELVES THAT “”THE EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO YOURSOULD”" THIS STATENMENT IS INDEED VERY TRUE. LOTS OF LOVE AND PURPLE SMILES.

AWWW PAI. VOCE PAULO E OPTIMO.! OBRIGADA

HAPPY PURPLE DAYS

GENIE_GIRL
TORONTO,CANADA

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ketki August 30, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Those brown eyes have betrayed me……. They are shallow and ruthless……. I have wept for a deceitful liar…… He cheated me…… He now looks forward to a happy life with someone else…… And i am wondering why i was chosen for heartbreak!

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stella August 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm

…i can t see the soul when looking at people s eyes..i can only feel when they re happy ,they feel love or not,or sad or such things…
the only moment i feel i see deep inside a soul is when i look into a dog’s eyes..in there yes..i can see the soul, the innosence and the beauty…so the only bridge to the pure
feelings or soul is the dog s eyes…

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Gözde Ural (Üstüner) August 12, 2011 at 12:54 am

Göz , Türkçe’de kelime olarak içinde öz’ü de barındırır. Yani O’nu ,yüce yaratanın sonsuz varlığını… Göz anladığımız ,algıladığımız dünya ile algılanamayan, sır arasında bir köprüdür.Saf siyahın erişilmez aydınlığıdır.
Göz bebeği boyuttur,gecedir,sırdır,ilahidir,gerçektir. Bana anne karnını ve bebeği, dünyanın güneş ve ay ile sıralı dizilişini ve tüm zıtlıkları yansıtır. Ve tek bir gerçeğin varlığına bağlanır ; boyutlar,algılar,hiçlik yada sonsuzluk arasında fark yoktur herşey 1 dir. Bizi biz yapan ruha bağlantıdır diğer değişle. O sebeple bizi yansıtır. Gizem kapısıdır.Açabilen görür,açamayan bakar.
Görebilen göz hayatin ardindaki gercegin farkina varir,
bakan göz yasadigi hayata bakar ve onunla avunur…
Gören göz felaketin ardindaki hikmeti , ibreti ve illeti görür…
Bakan göz illeti hikmet ve ibretten bagimsiz degerlendirir…
Gören göz niteligin gücüne inanir ve gelecek olan hakli olanindir der…
Bakan göz sayilarin enkazi altinda ezilir ve cogu zaman husrana ugrar…
Gören göz vahyi dogru okur ve Tanrı’nın istediğini kavrar…
Bakan göz hafız olur ama muhafız olamaz, ezberler ama kavrayamaz, duyar ama anlayamaz…

Görmek bir bilinc isi…Gören bir göze sahip olmak en büyük duam…

Bakan bir gözden ise Allah’a siginmak lazim …
Kuran’da BAKARA – 273 “onları yüzlerinden tanırsın” der. !
amorosamente :)

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Jackie noriega July 28, 2011 at 11:08 pm

o concuerdo basta una mirada para saber si esa persona tiene afinidad contigo si la mirada no dice nada no te esfuerces esa persona no tiene mucho que enseñar ademàs en una mirada puedes saber como es su alma si es buena o mala.lo digo por experiencia las mejores amistades que he tenido en mi vida han sido por la primera mirada creeme paulo que asì ha sucedido

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devon July 2, 2011 at 10:56 am

mi-a placut comentariul tau

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Ankita June 11, 2011 at 11:22 am

Our soul when asked upon which path is to be followed shows us the right direction. You may be a person of good or bad deeds but that does not bother your soul. It just believe one thing and i.e. the person whom he belongs to should lead in a correct direction, follow a correct path. It is its duty. Similarly are our eyes, if a person is greedy, kind, mean, rude, needy etc it can be made out just by looking at its eyes. Eyes shows what’s in the other persons mind and soul. What he really needs and what is mere deception? Just by looking in the eyes of someone you come to know the feelings they are carrying with them towards you or the situation.

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Sophia May 23, 2011 at 11:14 am

I believe that

looking into the eyes of a human being is one way to look into the soul.

The eyes can, among other things, reveal the age of the soul – have you ever experienced looking an old wise soul in the eyes?

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Untoro Ardi May 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Understand it literally… if you know what I mean ;)

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Silayio May 10, 2011 at 9:03 am

I think eyes are the windows of the soul in the sense that:-
1. Our soul sees/perceives all that’s around us through the eyes.When/ if u have a beautiful soul…you will see beauty all around you. When you have bitterness, anguish,turmoil etc within you…you will see/perceive bitterness and all things bad around you.
2. The easiest way to peek at someone’s inside/soul is through their eyes for example when I feel/know I’m not at peace or disturbed/distressed by anything and it gets to me(affects me) it shows in my eyes.Even without telling it to anyone,the people around me say I look detached, distant, disinterested,that I have this daze in my eyes.I realize that I dont even make eye contact while talking with people.I feel that by lookin at them..I could give away the turmoil inside…well as much as I can put up a facade n master my emotions…it doesnt stay put for too long

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Ballerina March 21, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Eyes are not always windows of the soul. Only the person that can see in the otherone his universe, can see his soul, and this is because he is really in love with that person or feels something really strong, a connection. Sorry for my english, I’m from Argentina.

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Bailarina March 22, 2011 at 6:54 pm

No se que paso con mi comentario, se deformo la escritura y se mezclaron palabras, yo no lo escribi asi.
En definitiva quise decir que SOLO AQUEL QUE AMA VERDADERAMENTE A QUIEN TIENE ENFRENTE, PUEDE VER A TRAVES DE SUS OJOS, SU ALMA. Y VER EL ALMA DEL OTRO SIGNIFICA VER SU UNIVERSO. QUIEN LOGRA VER EL UNIVERSO DE LA OTRA PERSONA, LOGRO HACER MAGIA, MAGIA PURA

Bailarina March 21, 2011 at 10:45 pm

Los ojos, no siempre son la ventana del alma. Son solo la ventana del alma para aquella persona indicada que logre ver en esos ojos, el universo de quien tiene enfrente, su esencia. Porque el alma de la otra persona podemos verla solo si la amamos o tenemos un profundo sentimiento por esa persona.

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Rojalin March 4, 2011 at 12:35 pm

If eyes are really the windows of the soul,then what about them who don’t have eyes,who can’t see the beauties of world.??Are they don’t have soul?

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devashish March 13, 2011 at 8:23 am

see things with your invisible eyes.

Anna aus Russland February 18, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Eyes reflect our soul. To look into them is the way to fall in love.

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corina May 31, 2011 at 1:36 pm

I understand now why I fall in love with him, I looked in his eyes ….now it’s all clear to me …

raj kamal February 14, 2011 at 7:26 am

eyes is the window of soul becoz only a true soul can see the nice world through his window. as your soul visualize the world true world the world might be so longer and laster

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Dave C January 21, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Are eyes reflecting the comprehension, or expression of the individual as by the mind, or the heart? Is there more brightness as HEART reflected, or otherwise described as truth founded? Is there an evoultion of mind founded to heart founded over time and understanding? Can our own eyes see our own soul? Can they feel it? How else would the universe look at itself?

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Kaprin January 16, 2011 at 9:14 pm

I think my eyes it reflects our soul. If the soul is alive and clean, they sparkle. If a person, the soul sleeps under a thick blanket of passion, his eyes reflect a blanket under which the soul is snoring. Eye clean the eyes of small children, they are credulous, they are ready to ocean knowledge spilled in front of them, because they are life itself ready for self-realization, these are the eyes of all the little children of Mother Nature, the question of all: how to get back to those eyes with age?

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Rajshree January 10, 2011 at 2:25 pm

if i would like to say one thing that reflects soul of the person then i might not find in his eyes but just the way the person perceives the world!!because we tend to believe the world to be like that whats hidden in our soul!! eyes do reflect part of the soul…..but views greater deal!

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devashish March 13, 2011 at 8:28 am

yeah i agree with you.

but,
khalil gibran tells about clothes,
‘clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they do not hide unbeautiful.’
similar may be the eyes.

hammad mirak January 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Eye is not wondow of soul. Heart is most part of soul all your feeling come for heart. Soul is bland your heart open eye of soul. To have what you feel. When eye close your heart open your soul feel beauty. Thing around u.

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Tariq January 6, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Scarface : “Eyes, chico, they never lie !”

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