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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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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 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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A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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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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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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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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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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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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