Helen Keller – “I feel the flame of eternity in my soul”

by CRAIG PEARSON, PH.D. on MAY 17, 2010

Helen Keller
1880–1968 • United States

Though blind and deaf from the age of two, Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College — the first blind and deaf person to earn a college degree. She devoted her life, through lecturing and writing books, to social reform. The play and film The Miracle Worker tells the story of how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her emerge from her world of darkness and silence to become celebrated as one of the greatest women of her time.

Keller published a dozen books and visited 40 countries, gaining international fame as she campaigned for peace, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and rights for the disabled. She helped found the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. Her friends included Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and received honors from around the world.

In her book My Religion, she describes the following experience:

“I sense a holy passion pouring down from the springs of Infinity. . . . Bound to suns and planets by invisible cords, I feel the flame of eternity in my soul. Here, in the midst of the every-day air, I sense the rush of ethereal rains. I am conscious of the splendor that binds all things of earth to all things of heaven — immured by silence and darkness, I possess the light which shall give me vision a thousandfold when death sets me free.”

For much more filling of the Universe click on:

http://www.tm.org/blog/enlightenment/helen-keller-woman-could-see/

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