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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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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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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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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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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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 will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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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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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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