I just read this book and wanted to recommend it to everyone here.

It’s one of the most inspiring and uplifting books I have ever read. It’s a a memoir of Jacques Lusseyran, a man who was blinded at the age of seven and who went to become a resistance hero during the occupation of France in the World War II and who endured fifteen months at Buchenwald.

Anyone else who has read it? Here is one quote that stuck with me. “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 sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance.“