Frases de Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill foi uma escritora inglesa, conhecida por sua militância pacifista e por seus inúmeros trabalhos sobre prática religiosa e misticismo cristão.

Sua obra mais famosa é "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness", publicada em 1911.

✵ 6. Dezembro 1875 – 15. Junho 1941
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Evelyn Underhill: Frases em inglês

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

Evelyn Underhill livro Practical Mysticism

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

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

“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)

“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)

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

Evelyn Underhill livro Practical Mysticism

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

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