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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “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.”

51. “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

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.”

52. “I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.”

53. “Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.”

54. “Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “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.”

55. “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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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram – impersonal and unattainable – the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.”

56. “In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram – impersonal and unattainable – the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “It is a state of preparation: a way of opening the door. That which comes in when the door is opened will be that which we truly and passionately desire. The will makes plain the way: the heart – the whole man – conditions the guest. The true contemplative, coming to this plane of utter stillness, does not desire “extraordinary favours and visitations,” but the privilege of breathing for a little while the atmosphere of Love.”

57. “It is a state of preparation: a way of opening the door. That which comes in when the door is opened will be that which we truly and passionately desire. The will makes plain the way: the heart – the whole man – conditions the guest. The true contemplative, coming to this plane of utter stillness, does not desire “extraordinary favours and visitations,” but the privilege of breathing for a little while the atmosphere of Love.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees – perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss – an undistorted and more veritable world.”

58. “The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees – perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss – an undistorted and more veritable world.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”

59. “Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.”

60. “In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The business and method of mysticism is love.”

61. “The business and method of mysticism is love.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.”

62. “Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.”

63. “All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.”

65. “When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe.”

66. “The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “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.”

67. “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.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who “keep themselves to themselves,” and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.”

68. “Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who “keep themselves to themselves,” and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.”

69. “The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.”

70. “True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.”

71. “God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.”

72. “The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”

73. “If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.”

74. “Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one’s spiritual life, as nothing else can.”

75. “A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one’s spiritual life, as nothing else can.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.”

76. “The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Here we part from the “nature mystics,” the mystic poets, and all who shared in and were contented with the illuminated vision of reality. Those who go on are the great and strong spirits, who do not seek to know, but are driven to be.”

77. “Here we part from the “nature mystics,” the mystic poets, and all who shared in and were contented with the illuminated vision of reality. Those who go on are the great and strong spirits, who do not seek to know, but are driven to be.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Quote: “To “purify” the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, “What does it mean to me?” learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.”

78. “To “purify” the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, “What does it mean to me?” learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock. It.”

79. “Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock. It.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not “follow the footsteps of his most holy life” by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.”

80. “Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not “follow the footsteps of his most holy life” by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.”

81. “In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.”

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Evelyn Underhill Quote: “For no man understandeth what love is in itself, but such are its workings: which giveth more than one can take, and asketh more than one can pay.”

82. “For no man understandeth what love is in itself, but such are its workings: which giveth more than one can take, and asketh more than one can pay.”

— Evelyn Underhill

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