Out of Style ~ The Mystic as Misfit

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A MYSTIC is someone who has a habit of falling in love with life however it manifests itself—whether in its inelegant or elegant simplicity, entangled intricacy, or rapturous ecstasy, and despite its inexplicable but assured agonies. The mystic Read more [...]

The Way of the Mystic 2

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The late Carmelite monk William McNamara describes the simple awe and perceptive appreciation that is at the core of the mystic way. He writes: To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at Read more [...]

The Way of the Mystic 1

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The mystic or contemplative is the man or woman who is intensely and intentionally alive to the aliveness of God. Mysticism or contemplation is “the wordless awareness of oneness with God beyond what thoughts can grasp or words can adequately convey.”[1] Read more [...]

The Mystic: Proficient at Being Loved

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

We love because God first loved us. ~ 1 Jn. 4:19 Whatever else contemplative prayer is, it is the experience of allowing oneself to be loved by God.~ djm William Johnston, the Jesuit teacher and specialist in East-West mysticism, asserts that mysticism Read more [...]

The Three Marks of the Mystic

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at anything—a tree, a child, a pear, a kitten, a hippopotamus, and really “see” the whole of it; not to steal an idea of it, but to know it Read more [...]

The Mystic: Susceptible to Now

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery behind all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine . . . to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of Read more [...]

Is it Mist or a Must?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Who is the mystic? The mystic is the person who loves being alive and whose heart breaks open wide with awe and gratefulness to the source and giver of that love and life. ~ djm We live in a time when religious divisiveness promulgated by self-righteous, Read more [...]

Dear Mystic

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

The mystic is not a special kind of person. Every person is a special kind of mystic. ~ William McNamara Who me? Mystic? I think you have the wrong address. One of the sad if not tragic and costly losses within Read more [...]

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