For the mystic, daily life and moment-to-moment thought are linked intimately with spiritual issues.
- The mystic taps into and cultivates the deepest levels of his intuitive and subjective self.
- The mystic develops new and extended faculties of perception.
- abilities which lift him above other people
- What sets the mystic apart is that he is “in love with the Absolute.”
A key difference between mystics and all others is that their spiritual eyes have been opened, and they have “seen.”
- From the chaos of their early inner confusion, mystics awaken to an illumined posture of Being.
- They are in a state of Being, rather than – like most other – seeking to become.
- Mysticism is a transformative approach to life rather than a theoretical “playing” with ideas.
- Mysticism involves spiritual activity, representing the individual’s absorption and deepening relationship with God.
- This activity absolutely influences and dominates the mystic’s path and is inseparable from it.
- Thus the mystic and his “path” are one.
The mystic’s dominant life-emotion becomes love. This emotional state shows itself in his progressively strengthened dedication of will toward the things of God.
- The expression of his will in daily life
- Service to him through work, relationships and everyday choices
- Sacrifices of the physical/mental body in order to experience him, pay honor to him.
Although the mystic may not “appear” to be an active participant in the world, his entire world-view is dedicated to God.
- His life’s work is being, is life itself, and is not specifically one profession or another.
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There are two distinct thrusts or directions to the full mystic consciousness.
- One is the increasing vision or consciousness of God
- The other is the inner transmutation of the personality
- the rebuilding or restructuring of the self on an inward and deeply, all pervasive level.
- Neither thrust can be accomplished, without the complete transcendence of the small, egocentric self.
The true mystic is not merely involved with esoteric thoughts or beautiful images of God and heaven. He is totally absorbed in a life-movement, a journey in which his essential self – his real self – comes into life with and in God.
- This “coming to God,” as it has been called, is the journey.
- Its goal is to live in such a way that there is no distinction between daily activity and prayer, worship or remembrance of God.
Along the mystic way, the intuitional step can be described as an inner prompting, perhaps a sudden moment of insight, when the individual senses that there is more to life than his ordinary living currently reveals.
- The mystic’s journey involves a subsequent pulling-away from the world
- a distancing, emotional detachment, a way of life that is contemplative and simplified.
“Let my name perish, so Thy Kingdom come.”
For the mystic, purity of intent stems from love.
- Indeed, it is only through love in each aspect of his life that the mystic reaches his goal.
- He completes his personality by giving it up.
- Such giving up or emptying can only be accomplished by an individual who acts out of love.
- Transcends himself so as to know the One Reality.
craving and resource from “Ordinary People As Monks and Mystics” by Marsha Sinetar