Evelyn Underhill

Quotes

• “Hence the most scientific classification is a rough-and-ready business at the best.”
• “The mystics aim (Union with Reality) is not the suppression of life but it's intensification,”
• “No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained.”
• “The 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, he has not entered into possession of all his powers.”
• “I have merely attempted to put the view of the universe and man's place in it which is common to all mystics in plain and untechnical language: and to suggest the practical conditions under which ordinary persons may participate in their experience.”
• “Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. The mystic is a person who has attained that union in greater or less degree; or who aims at and believes in such attainment.”

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