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Evelyn Underhill



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 ImageThe spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageFor a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEvery minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn 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 of a personal passion.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOn 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.

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