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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Sorry, Apology

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• La primera pregunta aquí, pues, no es "¿Qué es lo mejor para mi alma?", ni siquiera es "¿Qué es lo más útil para la humanidad?". Sino -trascendiendo ambos objetivos limitados- ¿qué función debe cumplir esta vida en la gran y secreta economía de Dios?

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  Soul, Humanity, Secret

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• El misticismo, según sus definiciones históricas y psicológicas, es la intuición o experiencia directa de Dios; y un místico es una persona que tiene, en mayor o menor grado, esa experiencia directa, una persona cuya religión y vida se centran, no simplemente en una creencia o práctica aceptada, sino en lo que la persona considera un conocimiento personal de primera mano.

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  Personal Knowledge, Hands, Practice

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• 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.

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  Christian, Wise, Regret

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• For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

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  Spiritual, Light, Air

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• Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

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  Trying, Quiet, Introvert

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• In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

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  Artist, Environmental, Eternal Love

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• La vida espiritual no es una carrera especial, que implica la abstracción del mundo de las cosas. Forma parte de la vida de todo hombre; y hasta que no la ha realizado, no es un ser humano completo, no ha entrado en posesión de todas sus facultades.

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  Spiritual, Men, Careers

  Evelyn Underhill (1914). “Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People”

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• The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

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  Hands, Looks, Firsts

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

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  Jesus, Holiday, People

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• The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.

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  Spiritual, Order, Environmental

  Evelyn Underhill (1937). “The Spiritual Life”

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• It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

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  Looks, Impossible

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• A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

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  Soul, Saint, Mystery

  Evelyn Underhill (2006). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.34, A&C Black

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• The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

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  Prayer, Garden, Potatoes

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• A medida que el auténtico impulso religioso se hace dominante, la adoración toma cada vez más las riendas. Vengo a buscar a Dios porque lo necesito", puede ser una fórmula adecuada para la oración. Vengo a adorar su esplendor y a arrojarme a sus pies con todo lo que tengo", es la única fórmula posible de adoración.

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  Religious, Prayer, Feet

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Todas las cosas se perciben a la luz de la caridad y, por tanto, bajo el aspecto de la belleza; pues la belleza es simplemente la realidad vista con los ojos del amor.

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  Belleza, Ojo, Realidad

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

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  Grace, Soul, Church

  Evelyn Underhill (1989). “The Fruits of the Spirit”, p.24, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• El negocio y el método de la mística es el amor.

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  Method, Mysticism

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

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  Possibility, Ends, Notes

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.98, Aeterna Press

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• When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

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  Opening Up, World, Levels

  "The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God".

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• Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

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  Spiritual, Achievement, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Concerning the Inner Life with the House of the Soul”, p.17, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

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  Inspirational, Reading, Great Love

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

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  Christianity, Declaration, Happened

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.68, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

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  Cat, Opinion, Kitten

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• 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.

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  Intuition, Vision, Hints

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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