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And There Was Light
by Jacques Lusseyran
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Parabola Books (1987-07)
ISBN: 0930407032
EAN: 9780930407032
Paperback
SKU: V128MMN
Condition: Used: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending — literally — to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.
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Customer Reviews
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"And There Was Light" is abundently superb.
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-05-03
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Startling in its intelligence, moral power, and sheer beauty, this text is a treasure for both the seasoned wise and the passionate young. Lusseyran was a man of rare talent and courage; his untimely death in 1971 saw the loss of one of Earth's freest and wisest souls. May our children and our children's children have the privilege of reading his remarkable story.
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One of the books I hope always to keep.
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-04-09
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was recommended to me in 1970 by Marshall McLuhan. He was greatly impressed by this book, as was I. Lusseyran's experience with the human voice was particularly intriguing. I tried to contact him at the university, but he had left. Does anyone know what happened to him?
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This book radiates with the luminosity of deep inner joy
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-12-22
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Upon becoming blind at 8 years of age, Jacques Lusseyran discovered a deep inner joy that henceforth illuminated his entire life and never left him, not even in the horror and despair of Buchenwald. He was a daring, courageous French Resistance fighter who taught people not just to see but also to experience that life beyond all life and that joy that surpasses all human understanding. Even the evil of Nazism sweeping throughout France could not dim this ever-shining light. Jacques lived life to the fullest every moment of his waking hours with an enthusiasm that is astonishing, energizing, and almost unbelievable. To read this book is discover anew that light which the darkness has never been able to extinguish.
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This is one of the great spiritual memoirs of all time.
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-12-17
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
It shows that we all, by remaining open and without fear, can remain in touch with the Light within. I admire J L tremendously, as a writer, a poet, a spiritual person, an antinazi, and an all around good guy.
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