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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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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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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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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 first question here, then, is not What is best for my soul? nor is it even What is most useful to humanity? But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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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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