Zitate von Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill
Geburtstag: 6. Dezember 1875
Todesdatum: 15. Juni 1941
Evelyn Underhill war eine anglokatholische Mystikerin und Theologin. Die anglikanische Kirche von England und die Episcopalian Church der USA verehren sie in ihren Heiligenkalendern unter dem Datum vom 15. Juni. Underhill behielt ihren Ledigennamen auch nach der Heirat mit Hubert Stuart-Moore im Jahr 1907. Wikipedia
Zitate Evelyn Underhill
„The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Preface, p. 14-15
Practical Mysticism (1914)
Kontext: 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.
„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, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter I, What Is Mysticism?, p. 27
„I have merely attempted to put the view of the universe and man's place in it which is common to all mystics in plain and untechnical language: and to suggest the practical conditions under which ordinary persons may participate in their experience.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Preface, p. 16
Practical Mysticism (1914)
„Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they represent.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter I, What Is Mysticism?, p. 26-27
„It is reasonable, even reassuring, that hard work and discipline should be needed for this: that it should demand of you, if not the renunciation of the cloister, at least the virtues of the golf course.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter III, The Preparation Of The Mystic, p. 52
„The visionary is a mystic when his vision mediates to him an actuality beyond the reach of the senses. The philosopher is a mystic when he passes beyond thought to the pure apprehension of truth. The active man is a mystic when he knows his actions to be part of a greater activity.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter I, What Is Mysticism?, p. 28
„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, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: 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, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter X, The Mystical Life, p. 175-176
„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)
„Contemplation does not mean abject surrender to every "mystical" impression that comes in. It is no sentimental aestheticism or emotional piety to which you are being invited: nor shall the transcending of reason ever be achieved by way of spiritual silliness.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VI, Love And Will, p. 105
„The deeper your realisation of the plant in its wonder, the more perfect your union with the world of growth and change, the quicker, the more subtle your response to its countless sugestions; so much more acute will become your craving for Something More.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VIII, The Second Form Of Contemplation, p. 133
„For years your treasure has been in the Stock Exchange, or the House of Commons, or the Salon, or the reviews that "really count" (if they still exist), or the drawing-rooms of Mayfair; and thither your heart perpetually tends to stray. Habit has you in its chains. You are not free.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter V, Self Adjustment, p. 84
„Recollection, the art which the practical man is now invited to learn, is in essence no more and no less than the subjection of the attention to the control of the will.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter IV, Meditation And Recollection, p. 69
„As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Quelle: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter II, The World Of Reality, p. 38
„No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained.“
— Evelyn Underhill, buch Practical Mysticism
Preface, p. 14
Practical Mysticism (1914)
