Longing Quote by Evelyn Underhill Download Open image “Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.” — Evelyn Underhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Longing Longing Soul Mysticism Mysticism Passionate Passionate Passionate Longing Soul Spirituality
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ” — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has,… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn’t mean anything.” — Kevin O'Brien Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My only enemy is the miles of distance that's there between us, my favorite place is the road that leads me to you -… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
