There are two types of Dark Minds to me.

One is that of 'Guests 10.16 and 10.35' above, whose minds are on display for all to see....and who apparently, the BBC would prefer me to become like.



The other is one *far* darker. A mind that is pitch black, with no light *anywhere*

But, inside *that* mind dwelt the words and the wisdom of a soul so bright, so stunning, so compassionate, so intelligent, so illuminating, so deeply loving, that the world stared on in disbelief at the glistening stars that poured forth from her soul!

One woman.

Totally blind, totally deaf, totally mute, who took the world by storm with her positivity, her enthusiasm, her love of life..and of her fellow man.

One woman, who would have 'run her hands' over the braille version of Country Life, and absorbed all the meaning, the pictures and the feeling of empathy, that the writer of them has for the world about him.


From inside the beautiful, dark mind of Helen Keller:



"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision"

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. Or sailed an uncharted land. Or opened a new heaven,to the horizon of the spirit."

"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision"

"Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!"

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings"

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence"

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar"



Lizzie :0)