Evelyn Underhill Quotes

“Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.”
― Evelyn Underhill

“All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.”
― Evelyn Underhill

“The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.”
― Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism

“All artist of some measure contemplative.”
― Evelyn Underhill