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• Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Trying, Quiet, Introvert

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• Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Personal Knowledge, Hands, Practice

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• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

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  Inspirational, Sorry, Apology

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

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  Art, Reality, Unions

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.10, Aeterna Press

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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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  Soul, Humanity, Secret

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

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  Spiritual, Light, Air

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• In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

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  Artist, Environmental, Eternal Love

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• A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Wise, Regret

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• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

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  Spiritual, Men, Careers

  Evelyn Underhill (1914). “Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People”

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• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

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  Jesus, Holiday, People

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• The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Hands, Looks, Firsts

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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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

  Spiritual, Order, Environmental

  Evelyn Underhill (1937). “The Spiritual Life”

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• It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Looks, Impossible

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• A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

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  Soul, Saint, Mystery

  Evelyn Underhill (2006). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.34, A&C Black

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• As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

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  Religious, Prayer, Feet

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

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  Beauty, Eye, Reality

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

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  Grace, Soul, Church

  Evelyn Underhill (1989). “The Fruits of the Spirit”, p.24, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

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  Possibility, Ends, Notes

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.98, Aeterna Press

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• The business and method of mysticism is love.

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  Method, Mysticism

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Opening Up, World, Levels

  "The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God".

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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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  Inspirational, Reading, Great Love

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

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  Christianity, Declaration, Happened

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.68, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

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  Spiritual, Achievement, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Concerning the Inner Life with the House of the Soul”, p.17, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Cat, Opinion, Kitten

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• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Prayer, Fixing

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