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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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