[The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day CHAPTER I 24/44
It suggests--and here, more and more, psychology supports it--that, real and alive as we are in relation to this system with which we find ourselves in correspondence, yet we are not so real, nor so alive, as it is possible to be.
The characters of our psychic life point us on and up to other levels.
Already we perceive that man's universe is no fixed order; and that the many ways in which he is able to apprehend it are earnests of a greater transfiguration, a more profound contact with reality yet possible to him.
Higher forms of realization, a wider span of experience, a sharpening of our vague, uncertain consciousness of value--these may well be before us.
We have to remember how dim, tentative, half-understood a great deal of our so-called "normal" experience is: how narrow the little field of consciousness, how small the number of impressions it picks up from the rich flux of existence, how subjective the picture it constructs from them.
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