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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Personal
Vertically
Grows
Extended
Less
Directions
Spiritual
Individuals
Individual
Souls
Become
Merely
Soul
Therefore
Life
Truly
Horizontally

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