Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of hi...
Show MoreOn every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...
Show MoreDelicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely in...
Show MoreThree deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic tr...
Show MoreIdealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultifi...
Show MoreThe business and method of mysticism is love.
Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceas...
Show Morethe night of thought is the light of perception.
True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the on...
Show MoreTowards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself ...
Show MoreAs the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poign...
Show MoreDeliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...
Show MoreThere is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to ...
Show MoreAdoration is caring for God above all else.
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating detail...
Show MoreNever forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
