Advisory for the mystical journey
The
immediate world is too sudden and prolific.
We pull back from it, recoil at the number of raw images spilling forth;
we narrow our vision to shrink the awe of the totality that is here right now. We carefully ignore most of the astonishing
phenomena constantly tumbling out of each moment. We must think our world in order to slow
it down. To manage its unsettling
impact, we carefully box it all up into neat concepts and ideas, and thus
decrease its overwhelming intensity.
The
mystic is less heedful. Eschewing the
carefully groomed surface of her world, she plunges into the immediacy of
it. She exposes her heart to the
radiance of each unmediated moment. With
the flood gates released, the exquisite splendor of the world pours in all at
once, with all of its joy, poignancy, awe, and terror.
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