Karen Armstrong Quote

Wordsworth had discerned a 'spirit' which was at one and the same time immanent in and distinct from natural phenomena:'A presence that disturbs me with the joyOf elevated thoughts; a sense sublimeOf something far more deeply interfusedWhose dwelling is the light of setting suns,And the round ocean and the living air,And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:A motion and a spirit, that impelsAll thinking things, all objects of all thoughtAnd rolls through all things.

Karen Armstrong

Wordsworth had discerned a 'spirit' which was at one and the same time immanent in and distinct from natural phenomena:'A presence that disturbs me with the joyOf elevated thoughts; a sense sublimeOf something far more deeply interfusedWhose dwelling is the light of setting suns,And the round ocean and the living air,And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:A motion and a spirit, that impelsAll thinking things, all objects of all thoughtAnd rolls through all things.

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