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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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