Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. December 1875 – 15. June 1941
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Practical Mysticism
Practical Mysticism
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Evelyn Underhill Quotes about life

“As it is not by the methods of the laboratory that we learn to know life, so it is not by the methods of the intellect that we learn to know God.”

Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VIII, The Second Form Of Contemplation, p. 140

“The mystics aim (Union with Reality) is not the suppression of life but it's intensification”

PART II, CHAPTER I.
Mysticism. A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1911)

“The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things.”

Preface, p. 14-15
Practical Mysticism (1914)
Context: 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.

Evelyn Underhill Quotes

“Hence the most scientific classification is a rough-and-ready business at the best.”

Mysticism. A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1911)

“True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations : quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other.”

Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VII, The First Form Of Contemplation, p. 127

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