It is a very good description of how life felt for me, my character and nature, priorities and frankly, most of the world around me.
Things have changed a bit, in me at least, thank God. As for the world around me... the movie has proven to be nothing but prophetic in it's nature, as it was in my own.
The quote is a favorite of mine from the book, The Orthodox Way - in it's context, it struck me as particularly true, as did much of the rest of the book.
However careless and indifferent the baptized may be in their subsequent life, this indwelling presence of the Spirit is never totally withdrawn. But unless we cooperate with God’s grace – unless, through the exercise of our free will, we struggle to perform the commandments – it is likely that the Spirit’s presence within us will remain hidden and unconscious. As pilgrims on the Way, then, it is our purpose to advance from the stage where the grace of the Spirit is present and active within us in a hidden way, to the point of conscious awareness, when we know the Spirit’s power openly, directly, with the full perception of our heart. ‘I am come to cast fire on the earth,’ Christ said, ‘and how I wish it were already kindled!’ (Luke 12:49). The Pentecostal spark of the Spirit, existing in each one of us from Baptism, is to be kindled into a living flame. We are to become what we are.
Also, I found from personal experience that it paired nicely with the first quote in my signature (which is likewise true apart from God) but was a much better direction to take things in. It is the way things were meant to be, and so it has (one hopes) the last word.
