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Evelyn Underhill Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Dec 6, 1875
  • Died: Jun 15, 1941

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911.

Adoration is caring for God above all else. God

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. patience, sympathy & wisdom

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. imagination

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. best