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    The World I Live In
    The World I Live In
    The World I Live In
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    The World I Live In

    Written by Helen Keller

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.

    My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand (Summary from text and Laura Caldwell)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women attended college and the disabled were often relegated to the background, spoken of only in hushed tones, is remarkable. But Keller's many other achievements are impressive by any standard: she authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her an FBI file), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. She also helped start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind around the world.

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    • 5/5
      Keller's book is an exploration in wonder and fascination. She takes you through each of the senses opening wide your sense of gratitude. This book is a must read for our generation.

      As an intellectual of sorts it really made me think: The intellectuals trouble with gratitude is due to a tendency for deep thoughts to disembody our minds from the world and even ourselves. If our body or the world request acknowledgement they seem like an intruder messing up our day. The value we have for our thoughts and the worlds they produce actively reduce our body and the world to a status of 'head transport'.

      For example: What if the commute could be full of value rather than road rage? Well, for that you'd decide to make value adjustments. When frustration kicks in determine to make adjustments and again. If the music is good give more value to your ears, if the scenery is good, give more value to your eyes, if the seat is comfortable and so on.

      The point: Give yourself more options to enjoy your life and you will begin to overflow with gratitude.

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