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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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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
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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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In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
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We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
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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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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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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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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Christian history looks glorious in retrospect but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
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Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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