Evelyn Underhill: Quotes about life

Evelyn Underhill was British saint, poet, novelist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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

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

Evelyn Underhill book Practical Mysticism

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.

“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.”

Evelyn Underhill book Practical Mysticism

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

“Because of that corporate life, transfusing you, giving to you and taking from you - conditioning you as it does in countless oblique and unapparent ways - you are still compelled to react in to many suggestions which you are no longer able to respect: controlled, to the last moment of your bodily existence and perhaps afterwords, by habit, custom, the good old average way of misunderstanding the world.”

Evelyn Underhill book Practical Mysticism

Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter X, The Mystical Life, p. 175-176

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

Evelyn Underhill

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