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1. "Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth." ~ Evelyn Underhill
2. "Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience." ~ Evelyn Underhill
3. "After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." ~ Evelyn Underhill
4. "Every 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." ~ Evelyn Underhill
5. "God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament." ~ Evelyn Underhill
6. "Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day." ~ Evelyn Underhill
7. "Adoration is caring for God above all else." ~ Evelyn Underhill
8. "All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love." ~ Evelyn Underhill
9. "God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not." ~ Evelyn Underhill
10. "God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer." ~ Evelyn Underhill
11. "The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe." ~ Evelyn Underhill
12. "Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me." ~ Evelyn Underhill
13. "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 of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive." ~ Evelyn Underhill
14. "For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday" ~ Evelyn Underhill
15. "He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life." ~ Evelyn Underhill
16. "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 his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus he may become aware of the universe which the spiritual artist is always trying to disclose to the race. This amount of mystical perception—this "ordinary contemplation," as the specialists call it—is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly conscious, nor wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime experiences of the mystical saints and philosophers than the ordinary enjoyment of music involves the special creative powers of the great musician." ~ Evelyn Underhill
17. "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
18. "The business and method of mysticism is love." ~ Evelyn Underhill
19. "As 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. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship." ~ Evelyn Underhill
20. "On 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." ~ Evelyn Underhill

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