The Archive · 1936

Creative Inspiration

Braille himself, continued Mr. Luceoek, decided to use his blindness to work out some means whereby he could bring a blessing upon. those who were similarly.aMicted. The second part of their responsibility was to "transform. the lives of the blind into something creative, and to help them to transcend ' their emiction, Where there was some definite defect that could not be transformed their responsibility was to transcend that defect of lite, Life threw oura challenge to those with such a limitation to discover its most creative, helpful and inspire ing possibilities of life, Their responsibility, then, was to show to the blind how rich life could be in spite of that limitation, The problem that they all had was fo keep the world of reality In the background, and to concentrate on the spiritual world, For a world that was go obvious to their physical eyes to take second place to the world of spiritual reality wag a dim cult prob-Tem, but it could be done more successfully by a person whose physical eyes were closed than by one whose Qualities wore normal. In this res eet, blind people had a very real advantage.

'A Braille demonstration was given afiorwards by students from the institute for the Chinese Blind,

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