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“The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.”

Mind May Spirit Consciousness Dangerous Greatness Exercise Fame Satisfaction Possession Active Lasting Ambitious Thrones Steep Ascent

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.”

Moments Past Spirit Grace Our Lives Active Gifts Of The Spirit

Author:Kimberly Hahn

“The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.”

Doe Enough Seems Spirit Father Process Knowing Son Products Protect Breaths Oneself Creator Deny Active Release Target Factories Defects Squeezing Supervisors

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.”

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Play Age Form Spirit Audience Quiet Intelligent Active Backgrounds Portraits Respectable Neat

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”

Two Spirit Evil Deeds Active Twins Primal

Author:Zoroaster

“a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.”

Men Spirit Change Perfect Money Existence Liberty Deeper Active Making Money Fulfillment Integration Making Changes Deeper Meaning

Book:Mystics and Zen Masters

Source: Mystics and Zen Masters

“This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.”

Mind Ideas Soul Spirit Existence Perception Active

Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding