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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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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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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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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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