Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. Evelyn Underhill More Quotes by Evelyn Underhill More Quotes From Evelyn Underhill Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual. Evelyn Underhill dreamer want may The business and method of mysticism is love. Evelyn Underhill mysticism method There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. Evelyn Underhill corners soul character 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. Evelyn Underhill simple spiritual life Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth. Evelyn Underhill achievement cost spiritual Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating. Evelyn Underhill meditation house thinking Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination. Evelyn Underhill keys imagination lying We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. Evelyn Underhill beautiful beauty love Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. Evelyn Underhill sense-of-humor saint happiness We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. Evelyn Underhill three inspire life Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God. Evelyn Underhill response worship men I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love. Evelyn Underhill reading hurt book You don't have to be peculiar to find God. Evelyn Underhill peculiar A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse. Evelyn Underhill regret christian wise The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost. Evelyn Underhill cost choices spiritual The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader. Evelyn Underhill hints intuition vision Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. Evelyn Underhill martyrdom execution differences The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that. Evelyn Underhill important matter feelings 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 of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire. Evelyn Underhill artist beautiful reality 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. Evelyn Underhill tasks choices christian
