The World I Live In (Audio)

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.

My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women.

The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another’s hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand.

00 - Preface
01 - The Seeing Hand
02 - The Hands of Others
03 - The Hand of the Race
04 - The Power of Touch
05 - The Finer Vibrations
06 - Smell, the Fallen Angel
07 - Relative Values of the Senses
08 - The Five-Sensed World
09 - Inward Visions
10 - Analogies in Sense Perception
11 - Before the Soul Dawn
12 - The Larger Sanctions
13 - The Dream World
14 - Dreams and Reality
15 - A Waking Dream
16 - A Chant of Darkness