Quoting William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ch. Lectures XI, XII, and XIII. Saintliness, first published 1902

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ch. Lectures XI, XII, and XIII. Saintliness, first published 1902 (via)

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