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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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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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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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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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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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