Anybody can see, but I believe that vision is altogether different, and has nothing to do with your eyes.  True sight takes a person with a heart that is open to the truth, and will not cling to lies simply because they are comfortable or seem nicer.  Vision is when you lift your eyes from your ordinary life and suddenly see reality in its truest sense, without all the material distractions that our age is cluttered with.  Everyone, at some point in their life, has a moment of true vision.  Whether you have it more often than that is based on whether you are willing to accept what you see, or whether you prefer to pull the blinders back over your eyes and return to your false reality. 

            Because the truth is, everyone could see, if they were willing.  Vision is not some gift that is given only to a few — "visionaries," as we like to call the poets and artists.  We think that those people are born with vision, but what we don't realize is that they chose vision.  They chose to accept that there is a higher form of reality, and because of that choice they were always uncomfortable in the world that we see with our normal eyes, and with the mundane.  They chose pain, because they believed that an uncomfortable truth is infinitely better than a comfortable lie. 

            And that is the difficult part of vision: vision is uncomfortable.  It's a bitter pill to swallow, because when we allow ourselves to see the true nature of reality, we also see the true nature of ourselves.  And that nature of ourselves is not what we have been lead to believe: godlike, divine, infinitely good a just.  Those qualities are the illusion.  If we really looked at ourselves honestly, we would see that we are not at all godlike, not at all divine, and only moderately good and just.  I say moderately, because we can all appear to be good on the outside, right?  But what is in our hearts?  We may equate desiring goodness with being good, but the one does not replace the other in the least.  And when the body passes away, the heart is all we will be left with.