Nicholas of Cusa Quote

Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

Toward a new Council of Florence: 'On the peace of faith' and other works by Nicolaus of Cusa (ed. Schiller Inst, 1993)