Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Conjugating life

Evelyn Underhill's famous observation in her little book The Spiritual Life:

"Most people spend their lives trying to conjugate the verbs 'to want,' 'to have' and 'to keep'— craving, clutching, clinging—when all the Spirit wills us to do is to conjugate the verb 'to be.'"

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/mayjun/4.39.html?start=3

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