“Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act and attain heaven.”
- Source
- Optimism: An Essay
- Date
- 1903
Meaning of “Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I…”
Keller describes intellectual and spiritual agency as a source of rejoicing after recalling an earlier life of darkness and stillness.
Where does it come from?
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. “Attain heaven” belongs to Keller’s explicitly religious language and is not secularized into a guaranteed outcome.