"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23
These are two stand-alone verses in the middle of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, sandwiched between "store up for yourselves treasures in heaven" and "no one can serve two masters".
"Healthy" eyes belong to the person who sees the world as it really is - and I think that would include basic guiding truths like humanity's creation in the image of God, the fallenness of human nature, and the sovereignty, love, and self-sacrifice of the Creator.
"Unhealthy" eyes, then, belong to people who are under the impression they know what is going on in this world, but are actually blind to reality - missing one or all of the basic guiding truths of reality.
The darkness in that case is "great" because the person is under the impression that he already has it all figured out - with no need to change his mind.
It's a good idea to examine our own eyesight and to be open to the possibility that some of what we have deemed to be "light" could conceivably be "darkness".
We must be open to changing the way we see things.
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