In the first twenty years of hs life Jacques Lusseyran was faced with two of the darkest of all human fates: he was physically blinded at the age of eight and ten years later suffered ll the worst horrors of human evil in a Nazi concentration camp. From each of these experiences was born an intensity of light and joy that took him beyond the darkness while never rejecting the outer facts. We who have eyes and yet are blind in so many other ways may read and rejoice in his vision. - Helen M. Luke

Product Description: This inspiring title new to paperback presents six little-known essays by the blind French author and Resistance leader Jacques Lusseyran. Two of the essays delve more deeply into the human drama and heroism of his interment in a Nazi prison camp at Buchenwald, which Lusseyran described so movingly in his autobiography And There Was Light...read more

Product Description: Six little-known essays by the blind French author and Resistance leader Jacques Lusseyran, gathered together for the first time in English. Four of the six essays are based on Lusseyran’s experiences both during and after university life as a professor of literature and philosophy in Europe and in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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...read more

Product Description: 'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.' It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such a man was Jacques Lusseyran, a French underground resistance leader during the Second World War...read more