It would have been strange indeed if the great religions had not included some variant of this statement in their teachings. But there is, in the world s great religions, a higher teaching also. This is not, perhaps, a stated tenet in all the world religions, but it is certainly a universal effect experienced by anyone who sincerely lives by their teachings. It is time, and long past time, that we reinstituted in the schools an emphasis on high values and high ideals. Indeed, the process of evolution both of species, outwardly, and of individuals, inwardly is not only a push upward from below, but also a magnetic appeal from above.
Science speaks of energy in both potential and kinetic states.
Both states are real, though in its potential form the energy is not yet overtly manifested. The very fact that they are potentials makes them real, in a sense, even now. If they were not potential, moreover, they could never become manifested. Mankind is not seduced from reality by his dreams of beauty and perfection. Rather, the greatest accomplishments are achieved by those who dare to cherish such dreams.