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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
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