Light in My Darkness

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Summary: HOW WOULD BE THE GOD
Review: I CREATE YOU MY OWN GOD, AND I KNOW,NO ONE SEE THE GOD, IN WORDS I CANN'T EXPRESS YOU, BUT STILL I CAN WORSHIP YOU.

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Summary: HOW WOULD BE THE GOD
Review: I CREATE YOU MY OWN GOD, AND I KNOW,NO ONE SEE THE GOD, IN WORDS I CANN'T EXPRESS YOU, BUT STILL I CAN WORSHIP YOU.

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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It made me look again at what I believe and see it more clearly. This is a great introduction to the ideas of Emanual Swedenborg and the New Church.

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Summary: Mention of Keller's Swedenborgian faith in Helen Keller: A L
Review: Please see mention of Helen Keller's Swedenborgian faith in the new Dorothy Herrmann biography, HELEN KELLER: A LIFE. Herrmann lists LIGHT IN MY DARKNESS in her bibliography.

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Summary: Wonderfully informative, inspiring reading.
Review: The newly revised and updated second edition of Helen Keller's autobiography originally published in 1927 includes a substantial foreword by Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann. The deaf, dumb and blind Helen Keller (1880-1968) became an internationally known spokesperson for the blind. Her amazing story of being taught to communicate by Annie Sullivan is very well know. But what is not so well known Keller's faith in the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg whose spiritual vision gave her "the light in my darkness, the voice in my silence". Light In My Darkness is wonderfully informative and inspiring reading and this splendid edition will re-introduce a most remarkable woman to a whole new generation of readers.

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Summary: Touching Story, Stunning Ideas
Review: This book was not only touching because of Helen Keller's fascinating story, but also an uplifting reassurance that life is worth living. Her ideas, those from and about Emanuel Swedenborg, strike me as poingantly true. Helen Keller's unique perspective on the world adds an amazing depth and reality to this work. I absolutly reccomend it for anyone and everyone.

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Summary: This book unlocks the secret of Helen Keller's strength.
Review: When I first came across this book I could not understand why I would weep whenever I read it. The more I read, the more I realized that Helen's story was one of the greatest stories ever told--a story of courage and perseverance in the face of enormous obstacles. Today people make headlines if they can climb Mt. Everest with one leg, or win the special olympics in a wheel chair. But Helen Keller's story is so much deeper. It isn't so much about overcoming her physical limitations, although she did so with great courage. Neither is it about her overcoming her academic limitations, although Anne Sullivan was a "miracle worker" in this area. In truth, the real story--now told for the first time--is the story of her spiritual struggles, her overcoming of despair, discouragement, and an overwhelming sense of isolation. As she puts it, "Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence. But in spirit I am like one who walks the morning." This is more than poetry. This is Helen's soul blossoming forth in language that is hardly spoken anymore. As one becomes deeply absorbed in her inner world, her outer handicaps are forgotten. No longer is she the woman who cannot see, hear, or speak. Rather, she becomes an eloquent and trustworthy guide over the rugged terrain of the inner world--the Kilimanjaros and Everests of the human spirit. Her great courage arouses something deep within us; she touches our nobler nature, and bids us to become all that we can be. Who else but Helen Keller could put it so majestically: "Our stored up capabilities are the holy places where we feel our kinship with the Divine. These are the places of sacrifice, the meeting ground of mortal and immortal, the tents of trial where are waged the great spiritual combats of human life. Here are the tears and agonies and the bloody sweat of Gethsemane. Here, too, is the victory. Here is the shrine of life we have chosen." Read this book; enter Helen's world, and you will weep too--not out of sympathy for Helen, but out of a profound sense of your own nobler nature, and with a determination to be all that you can be.