“In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.”

— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

On Christian Asceticism, p. 100
The Divine Milieu (1960)

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French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881–1955

Gareth Morgan (1943) Organizational theorist

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“The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.”

Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 550.

“All art is to some extent shaped by what has gone before. But that is an organic process, not a conscious intention. Novels are made out of novels as much as they are out of life.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

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“It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.”

Ann Druyan (1949) American author and producer

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“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“For me personally, The Organic Creative Process helped me to discover what kind of actor I want to be; but this is a process that goes beyond acting. It actually revealed to me what I want to do in my life and that I have to work hard to make it real.”

Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.

Foreword https://www.academia.edu/39237479/Prefazione_di_Per_scelta_per_caso._Oltre_l_Actors_studio_by_John_Strasberg to Per scelta, per caso. Oltre l'Actors Studio by John Strasberg, published by Dino Audino editore (2016) https://www.audinoeditore.it/libro/9788875273347.