And then there were the poets, those unbelievable people so different from other men, who told anyone who would listen that a wish is more important than a fortune, and that a dream can weigh more than iron or steel. What nerve they had, those poets, but how right they were! Everything, they said, comes from inside us, passes through things outside and then goes back in. And that to them is the meaning of life, feeling, understanding, love.
~ Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
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“..a wish is worth more important than a fortune…a dream can weigh more than iron”…How magnificent. How true.
That’s it. The line that grabbed me too
Ah yes!
WMS, and I love the idea of feelings and ideas moving out from us, passing through other things and then moving back into us….
And there is the miracle, of it, all of it.
I’m speechless caught off guard
Me too!
Profound. The blind can see beyond the view. :o)
They can. And feel more.
Yes,
What nerve they have?
Their Spears are wicked, they travel the furthest.
The wine they dip their spear heads in is made of our souls.
Wow. About right.
Also, I’m realizing how blind I am.
If you’re blind, I walk in perpetual darkness.
You are ‘Light’ walking in this perpetual darkness.
Awwwwwww…..
Another magical moment.
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