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A Quest There Is
A Quest There Is
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"That a quest there is and an end is the single secret spoken."
From Evelyn Underhill's great book, Mysticism, comes this pregnant sentence in quotation marks. She does not reveal who said it. For nearly half a century I have searched for its source and original context--without any success at all. Evelyn Underhill herself saw it as a stage in the awakening of self to "a new and more active plane of being, and a more personal relation with Reality."
When I first encountered it, I was drowning in grief, reaching desperately for a hold on some meaning in life. . . . I saw myself approaching in awe and tentative hope, expecting to be told something elaborate and final and possibly incredible--and finding instead this simple assurance, there is a search, there is a purpose. That is all you need to know. The rest you must find for yourself.
From Evelyn Underhill's great book, Mysticism, comes this pregnant sentence in quotation marks. She does not reveal who said it. For nearly half a century I have searched for its source and original context--without any success at all. Evelyn Underhill herself saw it as a stage in the awakening of self to "a new and more active plane of being, and a more personal relation with Reality."
When I first encountered it, I was drowning in grief, reaching desperately for a hold on some meaning in life. . . . I saw myself approaching in awe and tentative hope, expecting to be told something elaborate and final and possibly incredible--and finding instead this simple assurance, there is a search, there is a purpose. That is all you need to know. The rest you must find for yourself.
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