Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §3 : Personal Power
Context: A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life. An artist informs the world of what’s available behind the masks we all wear. That’s what we’re all here to do. The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we’re not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you; it radiates from within you.
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Context: Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 213
Some Versions of Pastoral (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935) p. 15.
Other
'Painting and Culture' p. 56
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.”
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
Variant translation: The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
As quoted in Ionia, a Quest (1954) by Freya Stark, p. 94
“Harry Dresden: You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”
Source: The Dresden Files, Small Favor (2008), Chapter 24
We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
Interview (2003).
