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The business and method of mysticism is love.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
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Love
Mysticism

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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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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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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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