and then there was light book french blind

Of course, Lusseyran was a remarkably gifted man with the soul of a poet and a profound capacity for love, faith and courage. But there is no such night, for at every waking hour and even in my dreams I lived in a stream of light,” Lusseyran explain1932402722and how should I not have it in the presence of the marvel which kept renewing itself? Inside me every sound, every scent, and every shape was forever changing into light, and light itself changing into color to make a kaleidoscope of my blindness.” “Sighted people always talk about the night of blindness, and that seems to them quite natural. Lusseyran, a faithful Christian with an impressive grounding in the French rationalist tradition, does not bother to distinguish between the powers of perception that can be explained by a heightened sense of touch, smell or hearing, and those that are a gift from God. I found light and joy at the same moment, and I can say without hesitation that from that time on light and joy have never been separated in my experience.” “I was aware of a radiance emanating from a place I knew nothing about.

Yet how was I to believe them when I saw?” he writes. But the intuitive young child almost immediately discovered anew a different sense of sight, an inner light that illuminated the world around him and bestowed on him the ability to see without the use of his eyes: “They told me that to be blind meant not to see. A tragic schoolroom accident rendered him completely blind at age 8. His description of what it is like to “see” as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the “Invalids’ Barracks,” is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered. Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. “And There Was Light” is the little-known but thoroughly luminous autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind man who discovered the gift of inner sight after losing his vision in a childhood accident-and then put his gift to use in the struggle against Nazism.

And then there was light book french blind