The mystical experience

Detail: The Mystical Nativity
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Image from Wikimedia Commons

I think what happens to many of us is that we have our natural mysticism knocked out of us at an early age. And this is very sad:

Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

-- Brother Wayne Teasdale