“Even the power which lurks in every coal scuttle, shines in the electric lamp, pants in the motor-omnibus, declares itself in the ineffable wonders of reproduction and growth, is supersensual.”

—  Evelyn Underhill , book Practical Mysticism

Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter I, What Is Mysticism?, p. 27

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