Underhill: being

Monday, December 8, 2014
Meditation:
“Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”
    —Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual—even on the religious—plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest: forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in, the fundamental verb, to Be: and that Being, not wanting, having, and doing, is the essence of a spiritual life.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The Spiritual Life, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937, reprinted, Morehouse Publishing, 1985, p. 24-25 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 46:10; 27:14; 37:7,16; Eccl. 4:6; 5:10; Hab. 2:20; Matt. 6:25-26,31-33; 20:25-28; Luke 12:15,29-31; Rom. 8:14; Eph. 4:17; 1 Tim. 6:6-8
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are the sole source of all that is authentic. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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