A Divine Exclamation!

The famous longshoreman-philosopher author Eric Hoffer was cared for as a child by a Bavarian peasant woman after his mother died. For about eight years during this period of his life, Eric Hoffer was blind. Years later he had this to say about the woman who cared for him:

“This woman, Martha was her name, took good care of me. She must have really loved me because I remember those eight years of blindness in my childhood as essentially a happy time of my life. I remember a lot of talks and a lot of laughter. I must have talked a great deal as a child because Martha used to say to me again-and-again, ‘do you remember when you said this? Do you remember when you said that?’ And I realized that she had been listening to me and remembered what I said. And all my life I have had this feeling about myself: that what I think and what I say is worth listening…