Jacques Lusseyran was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was also blind — due to an accident at age 7. However he soon discovered a world of light many people only dream of. Shortly after the accident, he was walking on a street he knew well when he had a revelatory experience:
At this point some instinct — I was almost about to say a hand laid on me — made me change course. I began to look more closely, not at things but at a world closer to myself; looking from an inner place to one further within, instead of clinging to the movement of sight toward the world outside.
Immediately, the substance of the universe drew together, redefined and peopled itself anew. I was aware of a radiance emanating from a place I knew nothing about, a place which might as well have been outside me as within. But radiance was there, or, to put it more precisely, light. It was a fact, for light was there.
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Sighted people always talk about the night of blindness, and that seems to them quite natural. But there is no such night, for at every waking hour and even in my dreams I lived in a stream of light.
This was taken from his autobiography, And There Was Light, which was named of the best "spiritual" books of the 20th Century. It includes the amazing story of his work with the Resistance. Read it, and it will change the way you see the world — the way you see.
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