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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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Kitten
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Persian

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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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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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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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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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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events he has risen with Christ.
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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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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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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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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