Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or
morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of
their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much
like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of
using and moving only his little finger.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital
resources are than we had supposed.
The
Letters of William James
