From Helen Keller
I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
I believe that love will finally establish the Kingdom of God on earth, and the cornerstones of that Kingdom will be Liberty, Truth, Brotherhood and Service.
I believe that no good shall be lost, and that all man has willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist forever.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immoral longings. I believe that the state we enter after death is wrought of our own motives, thoughts and deeds. I believe that in the life to come I shall have the senses I have not had here, and that my home there will be beautiful with colour, music and speech, of flowers and faces I love.
Without this faith there would be little meaning in my life. I should be a mere pillar of darkness in the dark. Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart.
Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the presence of the Lord.
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