“My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”
"Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism" (1977), Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)
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Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 4 (p. 29)
“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
Source: The Painted Bird
“The spiritual quest is the expression of the deepest longing to connect with the Whole.”
page 172
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 24
Preface to 25th anniversary edition of Orientalism (1994), p. xv
Orientalism (1978)
Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), V
“Edgar Cayce gave this reading to counsel for taking proper attitude towards karma.”
Many Mansions, Chapter 7 – Karma in suspension.
Karma
Context: If the experience is used for self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, or self-exaltation, the entity does so to its own undoing, and creates for itself that which has been called karma and which must be met. And in meeting every error, every trail, every temptation, whether they may be mental or physical experiences, the approach to it should always be in the attitude of: “Not my will, but Thine, O God, be done in and through me.”