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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with 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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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 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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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events he has risen with Christ.
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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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