Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
Interpretation
Spiritual power surpasses material goods in driving human development and creativity.
In this quote, Charles Proteus Steinmetz emphasizes the significance of spiritual power in human progress, highlighting that while material possessions have dominated our focus, true happiness and creativity stem from understanding and harnessing spiritual forces. He envisions a future where society recognizes the limitations of physical wealth and redirects scientific inquiry toward the exploration of these deeper, often overlooked spiritual dimensions.
In practice
During a speech on personal growth, one might say, 'As Steinmetz noted, true power comes from spiritual understanding, not material wealth.'
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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