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Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

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Evelyn Underhill

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 what else is.

Ask, Begin, Belief, Individual, Ordinary, Uncertainties
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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

Extended, Individual, Merely, Soul, Spiritual

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

Ends, Inexhaustible, Note, Notes, Possibility

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it. . . The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

Accepted, Apparent, Nature, Real, Self, World

The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Longing, Mysticism, Passionate, Soul
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