“Contemplation does not mean abject surrender to every "mystical" impression that comes in. It is no sentimental aestheticism or emotional piety to which you are being invited: nor shall the transcending of reason ever be achieved by way of spiritual silliness.”
Evelyn Underhill
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“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

“Hence the most scientific classification is a rough-and-ready business at the best.”

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“The mystics aim (Union with Reality) is not the suppression of life but it's intensification,”

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“No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained.”

Evelyn Underhill

“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 realised it he is not a complete human being, he has not ...”

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