“One day a person said to me, ‘There is a man who illustrates in his own life all that you have been teaching. He is Walter Russell, a renowned painter, philosopher, 
and sculptor.’
It was not long afterward that I found my way to his studio in Carnegie Hall. I knew by the cut of the Van Dyke beard that I was talking to an artist. I could tell by the broad brow and profound depth in his eyes that I was talking to a philosopher. He was a man of action. There was, besides, a light in his eye that showed that he was capable of great inspiration — that he lived close to the Great Unseen Powers of the Universe.
‘Can you give me the secret of your life?’ I asked. He hesitated and then replied, 
‘Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.’
Continuing, he said, ‘I believe that
all mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. Every successful man I ever have known, and I have known a great many, carries with him the key which unlocks that awareness and lets in the universal power that has made him into a master.’
‘What is that key?’ I asked.
‘That key is desire when it is released into the great eternal Energy of the universe,’ he replied.
Walter Russell has proven this in his own life. His record of production would reveal a versatility, quality, and volume which would be creditable as the life’s work of at least five men. I asked him, ‘Do you mean to say that you never get tired?’
‘If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it,’ was his stated philosophy.
‘Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine, just as a change in the familiar hum in a mechanism immediately indicates normalcy to the practiced ear of the mechanic. An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it … finds omnipotence and omniscience.
‘The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.'”
The Man Who Tapped The Secrets Of The Universe, Glenn Clark, p. 4 – 8.
