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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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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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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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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 life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
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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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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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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