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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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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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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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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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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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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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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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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 will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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 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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