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My growth depends on my walls coming down.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
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Growth
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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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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Christian history looks glorious in retrospect but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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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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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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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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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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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 will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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