![]() ![]() “As a consequence this is the prayer in which, with an almost incredible stupidity, they have found the material of those vain repetitions which He has specially condemned. Teresa, who spent an hour over the first two words, absorbed in reverence and love.” ( ) Practical Mysticism is a book written by Evelyn Underhill and first published in 1915. “But we have come to believe that we can ignore this spiritual imperative, have the shoot without the root Christian action without Christian contemplation, the fruitful ideology without contact with the Idea.” ( Pages 2–3) It gives back to man, in so far as he is willing to live to capacity-that is to say, to give love and suffer pain-the beatitude without which he is incomplete for it sets going, deepens and at last perfects that mutual in dwelling of two orders which redeems us from un reality, and in which the creative process reaches its goal.” ( ) “PRAYER is the substance of eternal life. ![]()
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