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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.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Lives
Mostly
Three
Fundamental
Fundamentals
Transcended
None
Verb
Ultimate
Verbs
Except
Included
Spend
Forgetting
Forget
Significance

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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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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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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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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 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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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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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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