Afterlife Quote by Evelyn Underhill

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“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”

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But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully…

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“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus he may become aware of the universe which the spiritual artist is…

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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…

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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the…

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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the…

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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…

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Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

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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.

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your…

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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without…

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It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are…

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“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not…

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“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved…

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“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in”

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It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will…

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“One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.”

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It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

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“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure, uncertain in its results, is given up, but only in order to gain in the new way an assured pleasure coming later. But the end psychic impression made by this substitution has been so powerful that…

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