Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality

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“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.

“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