1875-1941, English Writer, Poet
Being / Essence / Soul
We mostly spend (our scattered lives) conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual – even on the religious – plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except as far as they are transcended by and included in, the fundamental verb, to Be: and that Being, not wanting, having and doing, is the essence of a spiritual life.
The Spiritual Life , 1937
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004