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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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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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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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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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