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It is no easy appropriation of supersensual graces, but a deeper entering into the mystery of life, a richer, more profound, participation in pain, effort, as well as joy.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
The Scholar said to his Master: How may I come to the supersensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
In no merely figurative sense did she regard herself as the spouse of Christ, but dwelt upon the bliss, beyond all mortal happiness, which she enjoyed in supersensual communion with her Lord.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
Mr. Murry confesses that at times, as he reads him, he is "seized by a supersensual terror."
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
This, then, was the type of Madonna, of the supersensual and sublimated Virgins of Cologne!
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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