A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses’ tails on cats’ bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way...

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man...