"Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.












the night of thought is the light of perception.

More Evelyn Underhill quotes
"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...
"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 wh...
"Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own met...
"The business and method of mysticism is love.
"Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life— compelled to pass on f...
"True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither...
"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 h...
"As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world ...