“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.” WayGivingUsePastSpiritualSpiritTurnsMistakeEssenceTreatsAngrySymbolsOur PastNegationConnotationWholesale Author:John Cowper Powys
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” PeopleNeedsEarthSpiritualMotherEnjoyStrangeWorshipCultCasualSpiritual Faith Author:John Cowper Powys
“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” NeedsEarthSpiritualStrangeWorshipSpiritual Faith Author:John Cowper Powys
