And There Was Light: Autobiography of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance
Permanently blinded at a young age, Jacques Lusseyran learned to "see" the world from within. This keenly developed inner sight enabled him to become a leader of the core of the French Resistance, enduring arrest by the Gestapo and the horrors of Buchenwald. This book is a testament to the joy that exists in all of us, a joy that no conditions–not even the worst –cankill. Lusseryan's inspring autobiography shows how he overcame the limitations of physical blindness by...
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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. Los Angeles Times Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell through the eyes of a man who has lived through both...even in the grip of darkest evil, Lusseyran is redeemed by light.
"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..."
\ From Barnes & NobleParisian Jacques Lusseyran was just 15 when the Nazis conquered France. Within a year, though, he had formed an underground resistance group of 600 youths. To make his brave feat even more remarkable, it should be noted that since the age of 8, Lusseyran had been blind. And There Was Light is the autobiography of a courageous young French hero who survived the horrors of Buchenwald. An inspiring true story.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesLusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell through the eyes of a man who has lived through both...even in the grip of darkest evil, Lusseyran is redeemed by light.\ \ \ The Baltimore SunThis is a magical book, the kind that becomes a classic, passed along between friends.\ \
