That's the whole thing in a nutshell.

That's the whole thing in a nutshell—whether you are able to do that which you crave, that which you desire, is immaterial—it's the wishing to do something above the level of the earth that takes you, later on, into the very Realms of the Spirit itself. It's that wishing to separate yourself from the desires of the flesh and the hankering ambitions of the mind, and the ten thousand temptations of the devil—it's that which tells over here, and it is the missing of that which tells as well.

The spirit of William Philip Schreiner

The Martha Graham Collection at the Library of Congress