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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.

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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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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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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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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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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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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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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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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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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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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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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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