Evelyn Underhill

"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."

"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 …"

"The mystics aim is not the suppression of life but it's intensification,"

"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 transc…"

"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 …"

"For years your treasure has been in the Stock Exchange, or the House of Commons, or the Salon, or the reviews that "really count" , or the drawing-rooms of Mayfair; and thither your heart perpetually …"

"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 transcendi…"

"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."