Evelyn Underhill
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
— Evelyn Underhill
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
— Evelyn Underhill
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
— Evelyn Underhill
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
— Evelyn Underhill
The business and method of mysticism is love.
— Evelyn Underhill
The night of thought is the light of perception.
— Evelyn Underhill
Therefore, it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus, he may become aware of the universe which the spiritual artist is always trying to disclose to the race. This amount of mystical perception—this “ordinary contemplation,” as the specialists call it—is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly conscious, nor wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime experiences of the mystical saints and philosophers than the ordinary enjoyment of music involves the special creative powers of the great musician.
— Evelyn Underhill
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
— Evelyn Underhill
Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving which makes him a pilgrim and a wanderer. It is the longing to go out from his normal world in search of a lost home, a 'better country'; an El dorado, a Arras, a Heavenly Son. The next is the craving of heart for heart, of the Soul for its perfect mate, which makes him a lover. The third is the craving for inward purity and perfection, which makes him an ascetic, and in the last resort a saint.
— Evelyn Underhill
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
— Evelyn Underhill
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