Can Anyone Become a Mystic ?...

Definately,, But please don't hold an imaginative picture of a mystic as some strange looking individual in a long robe... An authentic mystic is a sensible person who lives in the midst of a troubled world but is above its folly...A businessman at his desk or a homemaker at her stove can easily be a practicing mystic...The great mystics of history possessed various backgrounds and personalities...Lao-Tse was a librarian in charge of secret scrolls... Rene Descartes was a lawyer, army officer, author, musician, phychologist, philosopher, and a mathematical genius.. the Emperor of Rome, Marcus Aurelius, was caught between his love of the spiritual life and the demands of royality.. He wrote, "Look within, Within is your fountain of good".... Pythagoras, who lived about 550B.C. , used the principles of music to teach philosophic truths...Brother Lawrence was a cook in a monastery, though ignorant of of literary matters, he wrote a mystical classic called "Practicing the Presence of God"....Buddah was a prince who gladly gave up a kingdom in exchange for personal peace...A champion on the athletic field was named Plato....But they all agreed on the Mystical Path to achieve Freedom.............