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Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) was an English writer, poet, and speaker whose work sought to explore the depths of religious experience, specifically focusing on Christian mysticism. She was the first woman to lead spiritual retreats and lecture clergy within the Church of England.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAll men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has been a passing passion: they have early seen its hopelessness and turned to more practical things.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe 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, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is significant that many of these experiences are reported to us from periods of war and distress: that the stronger the forces of destruction appeared, the more intense grew the spiritual vision which opposed them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. ‘I come to seek God because I need Him,’ may be an adequate formula for prayer.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTherefore 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we are in good health, we all feel very real, solid, and permanent; and this is of all our illusions the most ridiculous, and also the most obviously useful from the point of view of the efficiency and preservation of the race.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThree 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageArt is the link between appearance and reality.

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