Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
“Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward. — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
