Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us… I could light myself…that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting… God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive. . Jacques Lusseyran
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In the passage above, the author Michel Leiris attempts to explain what life is all about. In his own words, he explains that God is a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive. In this passage, he tries to explain what it means to be alive. He used the example of God, which is a place where everything exists and nothing is missing.

He says that God is a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental but just simply alive. This passage once again shows that life does not stop when we die because there will be another time when we can come back again after death.

Source: And There Was Light: Autobiography Of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero Of The French Revolution

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