
“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”
Hercules and the Wagoner.
The Mad Lover, (acted 5 January 1617; 1647), Act III, scene 5.
“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”
Hercules and the Wagoner.
“The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel.”
Man's Quest For God : Studies In Prayer And Symbolism (1954), p. 7; Heschel would later use this analogy in several minor variations in other writings.<!-- also "In the Mirror of the Holy", in I Asked for Wonder : A Spiritual Anthology (1983) edited by Samuel H. Dresner, p. 20 -->
Context: We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
Quoted in The Montreal Weekly Star (22 August 1885), and War in the West : Voices of the 1885 Rebellion (1985) by Rudy Henry Wiebe and Bob Beal, p. 2
“America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
America (1956)
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
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2010
“Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.”
"Mind Games"
Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Context: So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun.
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.