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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
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Love
Mysticism
Method
Business

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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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