Thought For The Day

Spirit is the most creative, inspiring, and meaning-giving element in all of life, and yet it is also the most dangerous. When spirit visits us, it moves us toward action, commitment, ambition, goals, ideals, vision, and altruism. All these feed the soul, but they also wound it. To the soul their opposites are equally important - waiting, doubting, retreating, not going anywhere, not knowing, not seeing, and being absorbed in oneself.
When spirit is not grounded and checked by soul, it quickly moves into literal forms - converting others and becoming blindly and callously ambitious. Its powerful force may turn without conscience into violence, its altruism blackened as intrusion into the freedoms of others. Its creativity becomes unbounded productivity, and its quest for ultimacy transforms into jealous possession of truth.

- Meditations by Thomas Moore