Love and Miracles
I read Helen Keller's autobiography, "The Story of My Life" and Anne Sullivan's letter.
Helen was blind and deaf.
She looked at the world that a person can see could not see.
She also heard the music that a person who can hear could not hear.
Such things are often reflected in her writings, where the light spills from between the lines of pure and beautiful joy that no one else can.
What the Sullivan letter and her book show is that true education is only love.
Sullivan realized Helen's charm, brightness, curiosity, hard work, and deep insight earlier than anyone else.
She devoted herself to Helen with great delight.
Helen's world was pitch black, but through lifelong collaboration with Sullivan, she became acquainted with abstractions, thoughts, love, and the Bible.
Sullivan hugged Helen and told her "I love you". At first, Helen did not understand the meaning of what she said to her. She asked her teacher " Is love like a flower or princess?", in order to know what the word "love" is. Ms. Sullivan said that love is like a cloud. Clouds are rainy, floating, and crossing the sunshine, which you can't touch, but you can see how they work. Love is like that.
At that moment, beautiful truth was shown in Helen's heart. That was, there was an invisible thread that connects people's hearts.
She also asked her close bishop why there are so many religions in the world. At that time he said:
"No matter how many religions there are in the world, there is only one universal religion. It is the religion named love."
He taught her that God was a father and all men were brothers and sisters.
Her story The Story of my Life is translated into Japanese as "Miracle Woman".
I remember a book, "Charlotte's Web" which showed an impressive concept of "miracle".
This story gently teaches children the meaning of "death" and the meaning of victory over death through the interaction of a spider and a piglet.
There is a scene in the book where the spider writes letters with threads and people in the town showed that and very surprised, but one doctor says when he sees it.
"Why no one notices that a spider's web nesting is such a wonderful miracle."
As we grow older, we become accustomed to various things, and there are many things that become commonplace in our environment and education. There are so many miracles that we may have overlooked , We can notice such miracles if we look at the world as freshly as a newborn child.
Helen was blind and deaf.
She looked at the world that a person can see could not see.
She also heard the music that a person who can hear could not hear.
Such things are often reflected in her writings, where the light spills from between the lines of pure and beautiful joy that no one else can.
What the Sullivan letter and her book show is that true education is only love.
Sullivan realized Helen's charm, brightness, curiosity, hard work, and deep insight earlier than anyone else.
She devoted herself to Helen with great delight.
Helen's world was pitch black, but through lifelong collaboration with Sullivan, she became acquainted with abstractions, thoughts, love, and the Bible.
Sullivan hugged Helen and told her "I love you". At first, Helen did not understand the meaning of what she said to her. She asked her teacher " Is love like a flower or princess?", in order to know what the word "love" is. Ms. Sullivan said that love is like a cloud. Clouds are rainy, floating, and crossing the sunshine, which you can't touch, but you can see how they work. Love is like that.
At that moment, beautiful truth was shown in Helen's heart. That was, there was an invisible thread that connects people's hearts.
She also asked her close bishop why there are so many religions in the world. At that time he said:
"No matter how many religions there are in the world, there is only one universal religion. It is the religion named love."
He taught her that God was a father and all men were brothers and sisters.
Her story The Story of my Life is translated into Japanese as "Miracle Woman".
I remember a book, "Charlotte's Web" which showed an impressive concept of "miracle".
This story gently teaches children the meaning of "death" and the meaning of victory over death through the interaction of a spider and a piglet.
There is a scene in the book where the spider writes letters with threads and people in the town showed that and very surprised, but one doctor says when he sees it.
"Why no one notices that a spider's web nesting is such a wonderful miracle."
As we grow older, we become accustomed to various things, and there are many things that become commonplace in our environment and education. There are so many miracles that we may have overlooked , We can notice such miracles if we look at the world as freshly as a newborn child.