Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of…

Evelyn Underhill
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ✨ Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill, p.113, University of Illinois Press
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