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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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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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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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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 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.
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