A journal entry about the search
I recently read this quote from Robert Greenleaf's journal entry on August 30, 1941. I found it to be quite moving, as well as insightful into who Greenleaf was:
This is my journal.....This, I expect to be the record of a search without end.....So my search shall bear fruit - not in final accomplishments on which I shall rest - but in ever widening horizons. My satisfaction shall derive from the contemplation of these horizons and in the satisfactions that accrue from expanding my powers to explore them. Life then is growth; when growth stops there is atrophy. The object of the quest, then, is the capacity to grow, the strength to bear the burden of the search, and the capacity to live nobly - if not heroically - in the situations that develop.
This is my journal.....This, I expect to be the record of a search without end.....So my search shall bear fruit - not in final accomplishments on which I shall rest - but in ever widening horizons. My satisfaction shall derive from the contemplation of these horizons and in the satisfactions that accrue from expanding my powers to explore them. Life then is growth; when growth stops there is atrophy. The object of the quest, then, is the capacity to grow, the strength to bear the burden of the search, and the capacity to live nobly - if not heroically - in the situations that develop.
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