“Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."”

The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Context: To be capable of everything and do justice to everything, one certainly does not need less spiritual force and èlan and warmth, but more. What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward an isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Faith under Fire broadcast (September 12, 2005)

The Meeting of the Waters.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

" In the Valley of the Elwy http://www.bartleby.com/122/16.html", lines 9-10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Session 612, p. 3
The Nature of Personal Reality (1974)

Source: Letters of John Keats

Quoted by Thomas Arthur Nash in The life of Richard Lord Westbury, formerly Lord High Chancellor (1888) vol. 2, p. 292 http://archive.org/stream/liferichardlord00nashgoog#page/n308/mode/2up/search/Then+sir+you+will+turn+it+over+once+more+in+what+you+are+pleased+to+call+your+mind: Early mentioning of Mental rotation

Source: The mechanization of the world picture, 1961, p. 15