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"Hence the most scientific classification is a rough-and-ready business at the best."
Evelyn UnderhillIt is a lonely and arduous excursion, a sufficient test of courage and — Evelyn Underhill
"It is a lonely and arduous excursion, a sufficient test of courage and sincerity: for most men prefer to dwell in comfortable ignorance upon the lower slopes, and there to make of their obvious characteristics a drapery which shall veil the naked truth."
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.
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"No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained."
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"It is reasonable, even reassuring, that hard work and discipline should be needed for this: that it should demand of you, if not the renunciation of the cloister, at least the virtues of the golf course."
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"For years your treasure has been in the Stock Exchange, or the House of Commons, or the Salon, or the reviews that "really count" (if they still exist), or the drawing-rooms of Mayfair; and thither your heart perpetually tends to stray. Habit has you in its chains. You are not free."
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"True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations : quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other."
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"The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every mans life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, he has not entered into possession of all his powers."
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